Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power … Shortly after the first accused terrorists reached the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Jan. 11, 2002, a delegation from CIA headquarters arrived in the Situation Room.  The agency presented a delicate problem to White House counsel …

Clinton cautious on health care reform  —  NEW YORK - When it comes to health care reform, Hillary Rodham Clinton epitomizes the old adage, "once burned, twice shy."  —  As first lady in the early 1990s, she tried to reshape the nation's health care system — an audacious effort …

Matthews on Clinton "being surrounded by women": "[D]oes that make a case" for or against her as commander in chief?  —  On the June 24 edition of the NBC-syndicated Chris Matthews Show, during a discussion about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), host Chris Matthews asked Kathleen Parker …

Obama: "Faith got hijacked."  —  It's nice to see Obama say these words:

Gloom and Doom in A Sunny Day  —  It was a mild January evening, and people had filled the restaurant's outdoor patio.  As our group walked past the tables, one of my friends said, "This terrifies me."  I don't know if she was reassured later by the chilly April, but we are all supposed to be terrified of the weather now.

House conservatives warn Bush of immigration's cost  —  Conservative leaders among House Republicans say that President Bush's upcoming showdown with them on immigration could threaten support for the Iraq war as well as for the president's other top policy goals.

Mrs. Edwards Comfortable With Gay Unions  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, kicked off San Francisco's annual gay pride parade Sunday by splitting with her husband over support for legalized gay marriage.

Illegal Immigrants Targeted By States  —  Frustrated with Congress's inability to pass an immigration overhaul bill, state legislatures are considering or enacting a record number of strongly worded proposals targeting illegal immigrants.  —  By the time most legislatures adjourned in May …

New York vs. Paris: Culture Shock?  —  Before I left for Paris (where I am spending two-and-a-half months living alone and working on my grad-school thesis research and a writing project), people warned me about the intolerant (especially of Americans), cold, and cavalier (especially about their dog's excrement) French.

Feminism and Clinton  —  A reader writes: … Hillary Clinton had a chance to pioneer feminism.  But she preferred her own ambition to her alleged principles, and when it really came down to it, she deferred to a man.  Bill came first, however brutally he humiliated and used her.

'Chemical Ali' Sentenced to Hang for Genocide of Kurds  —  Three senior aides to Saddam Hussein were found guilty on Sunday of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal and sentenced to death by hanging for their roles in the slaughter of as many as 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s.

Ready for Bloomberg?  —  Six months ago, when I began hearing rumors of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's possible interest in an independent presidential campaign in 2008, I went to see the mayor at his City Hall office.  —  He told me what he has said repeatedly ever since …

VIDAL HOT OVER MCVEIGH PLAY  —  GORE Vidal is up in arms over a new play that imagines him being sexually attracted to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.  —  Edmund White's "Terre Haute," which recently finished a successful run in Britain, involves the relationship between a thinly veiled …

J. Goodrich: The gender buzz  —  Studies that support traditional roles for women get swarmed on by the media, while more nuanced research just can't seem to generate any noise  —  An important parenting study came out in March.  It tracked the effects of good fathering on 19,000 children born …

Michelle Malkin builds a human rights straw-man and feels no shame...  Update II: A really interesting exchange has been added at the end of this post between Mr. Ali Eteraz, posted in the comments first, but I thought important enough to pull up here.  —  Update: there appears …