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...

Punishing political enemies? So Nixonian, so last century. Yet, 40 years later, the Obama administration found a good government way to pursue the same objective.

It seems that no matter how Obama gets out of this debt-limit deal, he's left in a double bind. He desperately needs to make a new first impression because he cannot successfully run on a terrible economy, an unpopular health care plan and a very confusing foreign policy at a time when most Americans are burned out on foreign policy.

Obama has effectively nullified the War Powers Resolution, which requires the president to end hostilities within 60 days (with another 30 days to withdraw troops) unless he has received Congress's authorization. His administration's flouting of the WPR displays Obama's fundamental hostility to the regular workings of the political process established by the Constitution.

The combatants for tomorrow's ground-breaking general election TV debate in Britain could use advice from U.S. TV debates over the past fifty years.

Richard Nixon, Bob Finch, BobHaldeman and now Rosemary Woods are deceased. The "what if" speculation is interesting, but it is one where there will be no answer.

However low one's opinion of Richard Nixon, that opinion will almost certainly be lower after reading James Rosen's The Strong Man.

We should repeal the War Powers Act and replace it with a framework for consulting with Congress on extended military action.