We think 2010 has been a tumultuous political year, but it has been a gentile tea party compared to 1968, the year that brought Richard Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan together.

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

Republican Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts has the Democratic party in disarray.

Everyone knows presidents have larger-than-life size egos. It goes with the job. But changes on the official White House website reveal that we've never had a self-regarding narcissist quite like the oval Office's current occupant.

At this event, one of a series of Nixon Legacy Forums sponsored by the Richard Nixon Foundation, four members of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's White House staff will discuss his relations with Nixon and their collaborations on welfare reform, education policy, and other issues.

For most of 2012, President Obama has been running in the Democratic primary. I know that seems odd, given that he’s essentially running unopposed. But that's not what I'm talking about.

Past presidents who sought reelection and won (Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and G.W. Bush) gave upbeat, forward-looking State of the Union addresses in their election years and had generally solid ratings.

Washington Post editorial writer and liberal blogger Jonathan Capehart is puzzled. Why does the "non-issue" of Harvard law professor and Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry "require so much attention?" he asked last week.

When Warren was teaching at Pennsylvania, Texas and...