Eliot Spitzer's courage in pursuing mutual fund abuses is inspiring. His new focus on expenses is thrilling. But we need much more than to strong-arm a few badly behaved funds.

What comes across time and time again is that domestic politics overrides President Obama's responsibilities as commander-in-chief, and Bob Woodward's latest book may confirm that winning the war seems to be the last thing on the president's mind.

For many of us who during the lastthirty years have been accused of being Deep Throat, the identification of Mark Feltcomes as a relief and a surprise.

The account in Bush at War is, for all its virtues, constricted by Washingtonian myopia and limited perspectives.

In his twenty-five minutes on Air Force One, General McChrystal may have used his knowledge and experience to convince Obama that his judgment was better than that of the armchair generals that the president had listened to for three hours the day before.

A recent New York Timesstory gives enormous support to President George W. Bush's rationale for invading Iraq in the first place.

Along with replacing Secretary Gates, choosing a new chairman-the president's senior military adviser-will be among the most important decisions Obama will make. He needs the best advice, not his favorite advice.

As Obama's record emerges his motivating principle seems rooted in an analysis that America has too often been on the side of the bad guys.