House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee, was in a fine fury Tuesday morning. Speaking on the Senate floor, he blasted Democratic lawmakers for a plan to permanently adjust the Medicare formula used to set payment…

Remember all that talk about how global warming was going to change our lives? It already has.
A new federal report on the impact of climate change condenses the latest science from a variety of disciplines. Among the findings:
• Heavy downpours are…

Congressional Democrats have seen the future of American health care. It looks a lot like Massachusetts, and a little like John McCain, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
House Democratic leaders spelled out their prescriptions for reform this week. Their colleagues in…

I happened to be on campus at Webster University Tuesday evening when I noticed something that seemed — to me, at least — unusual.

President Barack Obama was addressing the nation. Students were clustered around a television set inside the lobby…

It was known already that George W. Bush had signed a book deal. Now we know what the subject is: Decisions.  To be released in 2010, the book will tell about how the famous Decider came to about 12 or…

Rush Limbaugh: Just say know

Conservative commentators — Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck among them — have been railing against a provision in the federal stimulus bill that funds research into how well medical treatments actually work and distributes…

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

Rasmussen is out with an interesting poll today. Check it out here.

In the poll, more than half of Republican respondents said the party should be more like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Only 11 percent said the party…

Barack Obama and Joe Biden

Update: Caroline Kennedy, we hardly knew you. New York Times reports that she is withdrawing from consideration for appointment to the U.S. Senate to fill the seat vacated by new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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As was expected, President George W. Bush commuted the sentences of two border patrol guards, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who had been sentenced to more than 10 years in jail for seriously wounding a suspected drug runner. They now are…

It would be presumptuous, and probably a waste of time, to offer Barack Obama any advice on the presidential inauguration speech he will deliver Tuesday.

This is a man who — according to The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza — once told his new…

Dana Perino | AP

Dana Perino, President George W. Bush’s press secretary, gave her final press briefing today, and we’re a little sad about that. Perino’s press briefings were extraordinarily watchable.

She could be stern and uncompromising or funny and ironic. She…

Post-Dispatch file photo.

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to expand a key health insurance program for children that President George W. Bush vetoed twice last year. With less than a week left in Mr. Bush’s term, it is a fitting…

In our colleague David Nicklaus’ column in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch, Stuart Greenbaum, professor emeritus at Washington University’s Olin School of Business, rose to the defense of the U.S. banking industry, which has been under fire for its continued tight-fisted lending policies.

“People not…

President George W. Bush | Getty Images

President George W. Bush was at times serious, funny and mocking in what has been billed as his last press conference as president. Read the Associated Press story here.

Among disappointments about his presidency, Bush…

It’s tempting to see our deepening economic crisis through the prism of the culture of greed that flourished under the let-markets-run-wild ideology of the outgoing Bush administration.

To be sure, any administration that lets private companies rip off the military in wartime…

President George W. Bush has protected three Pacific Ocean areas as marine national monument areas Tuesday. The three areas, a combined almost 200,000 square miles, are:

• Rose Atoll, a pink coral near American Samoa.

• The Marianas Marine National Monument, the three…

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History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
— Winston Churchill

In fact, he wrote 74 books. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney may wind up writing a couple themselves, but the president and the vice…

A new rule may limit some women

Doctors take an oath to put their patients’ interests first. A new Bush administration rule will change that.
The so-called “conscience rule” is one of a host of last-minute regulatory changes being made in the waning…

President George W. Bush pardoned a few people today and commuted a sentence. Read The New York Times story here. Nothing stands out in this list of pardons, with the notable exception of the posthumous pardon of Charles Winters, an…

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

So, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg wants Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. Is she qualified? The New York Times takes a look at her resume. New York Daily News takes a look at her spirit. Is this the rebirth of the Kennedy dynasty? If…