Bush has brought his own signature style--nicknames--into the Oval Office.

As the ongoing Senate election contest in Minnesota shows, recounts complicate the election outcome more than they clarify it.

Abipartisan panel should be appointed to oversee the recount in the Minnesota Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman.

Al Franken will be a formidable, talented policy actor who will be taken seriously because he will be a serious player.

A controversial dimension of the financial crisis has been the role of credit ratings and the perverse incentives facing rating organizations.

Having a supermajority may have hurt Democrats more than it helped them: it enabled them to block Republicans out the health reform legislation process, thereby violating Barack Obama's campaign promise of bipartisanship.

The Democrats assumed that economic distress would make Americans more amenable to big government programs like the health care bill, but current polls show Democrats are less enthusiastic and far less likely to vote.

With the election just a week away, the American presidential campaign is getting louder, nastier, more dramatic.