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Byline: David Brooks I'd like you to consider the possibility that the political changes that have rocked this country over the past six years will be nothing compared with the [...]

In any organization there are some people who serve at the core. These insiders are in the rooms when the decisions are made. Hillary Clinton, for example, is now at [...]

Howard Dean is the only guy who goes to the Beverly Hills area for a gravitas implant. He went to the St. Regis Hotel, a mile from Rodeo Drive, to […]

The author asserts that the planned project by No Labels, an organization working to reduce political polarization and government gridlock, which involved efforts to secure ballot access for a potential third presidential candidate in 2024 is too risky.

Presents a look back at the campaign and the candidates for the November 2, 2004, election in the United States. Factors that may influence the author to vote against President George W. Bush; faults in the decisions made by the Bush administration on local and foreign matters; Observation that Senator John Kerry's moves since he was elected to public office was for career advancement and that the Democratic Party is not interested in reforming the entitlement programs that are causing problems for the government.

Presents suggestions that United States President George W. Bush should remove Richard Cheney as his running mate if he wants to win in the November 2004 presidential elections. Cheney will remind swing voters of the Iraq mess, intelligence-fixing, the spy Valerie Plame, and the Halliburton overcharging; Bush needs a running mate who revives the 2000 image of Bush as a compassionate conservative.

The article reports on the views of author that people of United States of America should continue to oppose any policies and measures taken by current president Donbald Trump which are against the interest of U.S. He also derides Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton for filing to present better alternative policies. The potential international and social and cultural impact of Trump's policies are discussed.

The author reflects on the political campaign of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump which revealed information on his life and germophobe personality.

The author reflects on the domination of U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump in the presidential race against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and mentions topics including the theories on Marginal Revolution, dynamism, and politics in the 21st century.

The author reflects regarding the implication of political experience for presidential candidates and political leadership in the U.S.

The author focuses on the supposed lack of imaginativeness in presidential candidacy of U.S. Democrat Hillary Clinton, comparing her with traditional democrats like Edmund Muskie, and notes that her speeches should have addressed issues like mental health problems, and reweaving community.

The author argues against Republican voters choosing Donald Trump as their nominee in the 2016 presidential race.

The author explores the U.S. presidential candidacy of businessman Donald Trump.

The author discusses on the need for some sensible presidential candidate for the Republican party in the U.S. for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The author reflects on the political and social conditions in the U.S. and include topics on several presidential candidates for 2016 election including Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden, the popularity of businessman Donald Trump, and the political alienation.

The author discusses the charisma of the presidential campaign of Florida Senator Marco Rubio.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of dissecting election polls.

GAIL COLLINS David, we're halfway through the convention process. We've spent quite a bit of time conversing about it in different venues and now -- print! I'm enjoying the conversing. It's just the conventions themselves I've come to hate. DAVID BROOKS Are you kidding? These things should go on for weeks. Thursday night alone offered as much emotional volatility as a year of ''Real Housewives.'' Here were these incredibly moving stories of how Mitt Romney ministered to the infant Kate Finlayson and to young David Oparowski as they were ill or dying. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sumter, S.C. When I started covering presidential primaries, the best part was getting to know the candidates. We journalists would ride around in vans and buses with them and get an intimate look at what it's like to endure this soul-destroying process. But the ubiquity of Web cams and tweets has ended that off-the-record culture. As the technology gets more open, the lines of political communications become more closed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past several months, Mitt Romney has been an excellent presidential candidate. He has performed superbly in the debates. He has outorganized his rivals. He has relentlessly stayed on his core theme of putting Americans back to work. He has taken Rick Perry apart with a cold ruthlessness that is a wonder to behold. And throughout this period of excellence, he has done almost nothing to endear himself to Republican activists. They have spent this season of excellence searching for anyone else: Palin, Trump, Bachmann, Perry, Cain and now (Please! Please!) Christie. On Nov. 4, 2010, Romney earned the support of 23 percent of Republican voters, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls. Today, he also has support from 23 percent of Republicans nationwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Democrats could be heading toward a defeat of historic proportions in November, but it is possible to imagine a scenario in which things might have turned out differently: On Dec. 16, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama and his senior aides gathered for a briefing on the state of the U.S. economy. It was horrifying. The economy was on the verge of collapse. There was little prospect that robust growth would be returning anytime soon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We've been watching Barack Obama for two years now, and in all that time there hasn't been a moment in which he has publicly lost his self-control. This has been a period of tumult, combat, exhaustion and crisis. And yet there hasn't been a moment when he has displayed rage, resentment, fear, anxiety, bitterness, tears, ecstasy, self-pity or impulsiveness. Some candidates are motivated by something they lack. For L.B.J., it was respect. For Bill Clinton, it was adoration. These politicians are motivated to fill that void. Their challenge once in office is self-regulation. How will they control the demons, insecurities and longings that fired their ambitions? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

We're in the middle of a financial crisis, but most economists say there is a broader economic crisis still to come. The unemployment rate will shoot upward. Companies will go bankrupt. Commercial real estate values will decline. Credit card defaults will rise. The nonprofit sector will be hammered. By the time the recession is in full force, Democrats will probably be running the government. Barack Obama will probably be in the White House. Democrats will have a comfortable majority in the House and will control between 56 and 60 seats in the Senate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I've been covering John McCain steadily for a decade. A few years ago, I worked on a book, which I foolishly never completed, on the U.S. Senate with McCain as the central character. So when I step back and think of McCain, even in the heat of this campaign, I still think of him first in the real world of governing, not in the show-business world of the election. I think first of the personal qualities. He was an unfailingly candid man. When other politicians described a meeting, they always ended up the heroes of the story. But McCain would always describe the meeting straight, emphasizing his own failings with more vigor than his accomplishments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I flew into the airport here on Sunday and the pilot could barely land because of the fog of bad advice. Democrats are nervous because Barack Obama's polling lead has evaporated. And when Democrats are nervous, all the Santa Monica Machiavellis emerge from their fund-raisers offering words of wisdom. And the subtext of the advice being offered this year is that Barack Obama should really be someone else. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Barack Obama has decided upon a vice-presidential running mate. And while I don't know who it is as I write, for the good of the country, I hope he picked Joe Biden. Biden's weaknesses are on the surface. He has said a number of idiotic things over the years and, in the days following his selection, those snippets would be aired again and again. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Radical optimism is America's contribution to the world. The early settlers thought America's founding would bring God's kingdom to earth. John Adams thought America would emancipate ''the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.'' Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush preached their own gospels of world democracy. Barack Obama is certainly a true American. In the first major foreign policy speech of his campaign, delivered in Chicago last year, he vowed a comprehensive initiative to ''ensure that every child, everywhere, is taught to build and not to destroy.'' America, he said, must promote dignity across the world, not just democracy. It must ''lead the world in battling immediate evils and promoting the ultimate good.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

My first thought on the running mate question is that to balance his ticket, Barack Obama should pick a really old white general. Therefore, he should pick Dwight Eisenhower. John McCain, on the other hand, needs to pick someone younger than himself. Therefore, he also should pick Dwight Eisenhower. My second thought is that most of the commentary on vice president picks is completely backward. Most discussion focuses on what state or constituency this or that running mate could help carry in the fall. But, as a rule, recent vice presidential nominees haven't had any effect on key states or constituencies. They haven't had much effect on elections at all, except occasionally as hapless distractions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Hillary Clinton may not realize it yet, but she's just endured one of the worst weeks of her campaign. First, Barack Obama weathered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright affair without serious damage to his nomination prospects. Obama still holds a tiny lead among Democrats nationally in the Gallup tracking poll, just as he did before this whole affair blew up. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Barack Obama had a theory. It was that the voters are tired of the partisan paralysis of the past 20 years. The theory was that if Obama could inspire a grass-roots movement with a new kind of leadership, he could ride it to the White House and end gridlock in Washington. Obama has built his entire campaign on this theory. He's run against negativity and cheap-shot campaigning. He's claimed that there's an ''awakening'' in this country -- people ''hungry for a different kind of politics.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Democratic presidential primary campaign began around Christmas 2006, and it may end Tuesday night. But of all the days between then and now, the most important was Nov. 10, 2007. On that day, the Democratic Party of Iowa held its Jefferson-Jackson dinner and invited the candidates to speak. There were thousands of Democrats sitting around tables on the floor of the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines, and rowdy thousands more up in the stands. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the author's views on the candidature of 2008 U.S. presidential election candidate, Mitt Romney. He says that Romney depicts great clarity of mind in studying the contours of the Republican coalition and molding himself to its norms. However, the author notes that Romney has failed to anticipate that in turning himself into an old-fashioned, orthodox Republican, he has made himself unelectable. Opinion polls show him to be unpopular among the middle-class and young voters.

The article presents the author's views on U.S. Senators Barak Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton as presidential candidates. According to the author, Clinton makes a better senator than Obama as she is a more substantive law maker who works effectively across party lines. He comments that Obama's power of observation may mitigate his own experience as well as the pressures of the White House.

The article presents the author's views on the speech delivered by U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in which he reflected his balanced approach toward conservatism and liberalism. The author thinks that Romney blended an argument for religious liberty with an argument for religious assertiveness in a good manner. The author says that Romney covered over different and difficult conceptions of the Almighty to build a voting majority of the faithful.

Two charts are presented that list forecasts for the leading members of the British House of Lords in 1823, and the 2008 Presidential candidates in the U.S., including Joseph R. Biden, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Mike Gravel.

The article presents a fictitious conversation between several U.S. Senators regarding Democratic Presidential race. John Edwards expresses his views that the U.S. citizens are longing for a President that they can trust on. Barack Obama states that the new President must be able to face new challenges. While, Hilary Clinton states that liberalism is an important factor for running an administration.

The article discusses why presidential candidate for the 2008 U.S. elections Mike Huckabee has a fair chance of winning the elections. The author says that he is the most normal candidate of the elections who is funny and engaging. Huckabee is a part of the new generation of evangelical leaders who loved musician Jiimmy Hendrix in his teenage. He also shares comfortable relations with white working class which supports the Republican party or GOP.

The article presents the author's views on economic debate of the U.S. Republican presidential candidate held in Michigan recently. The author has criticized the candidates for not addressing issues that touched concretely on the lives of working class people, who are backbone of the Republican Party. He has appreciated Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party presidential candidate, for issuing a string of specific programs aimed directly at members of middle class family.

The article presents the author's views on the U.S. presidential candidates with reference to their popularity in the group 'netroots.' The group includes bloggers, billionaires and activists. The author says that candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has established her lead by repudiating the netroots theory of politics. According to him, the netroots candidates are losing. The author also refers to two events, the YearlyKos convention, and the Democratic Leadership Council's National Conversation.

The article presents the author's views on the campaign of U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards. The author says that in his presentations during the campaigns, Edward talks about health insurance, migration, and his distrust of the federal government. The author describes Edward as a culturally conservative anti-Washington liberal.

The article focuses on the author's views on U.S. legislator John McCain, who is running for the upcoming presidential elections. The author says that despite facing rejection of his ideas to change the American strategy in Iraq, McCain has been consistently working to make the country's foreign relations better. He feels that McCain's approach to his victory or failure makes him outstanding when compared to other candidates.