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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a man whose political success is largely attributable to the aura of befuddled incompetence he uses to disarm his adversaries, was a failed Watergate baby.

President Obama's speech on Afghanistan has left supporters and opponents alike wondering if he has a strategy there at all -- or is just trying to split the difference between fighting and abandoning an unpopular war.

Consumers have been in the doldrums throughout this weak recovery, but the mood has gone from sour to despairing in recent months. The numbers have been so bad that the relatively obscure "Index of Consumer Sentiment" constructed by the University of Michigan has begun to receive the attention of political handicappers.