Sen. John McCain will be on Fox News Sunday this week. You can bet that McCain, a former presidential candidate who was attacked for months by Barack Obama’s campaign for his close ties to certain former lobbyists, will be asked about the former Raytheon lobbyist, William Lynn, who has been nominated by Obama to be [...]

The Secretary of Defense had this to say yesterday about the future of our efforts in Afghanistan: I think one of the — one of the points where I suspect both administrations come to the same conclusion is that the goals we did have for Afghanistan are too broad and too far into the future, are too future-oriented, [...]

The six-week drama came to an end this afternoon. New York’s new Senator made her debut today with a joke about how unknown she is. It was a wry reference to the far more famous names, including Caroline Kennedy and Andrew Cuomo, who had been in the running for the job. But there is one [...]

I don’t think enough has been said about the importance of Barack Obama’s appearance at the State Department yesterday–the message it sent to the world and also to our foreign service. It was wonderful to see the President at Foggy Bottom on his first full day in office: such appearances are rare, especially compared to [...]

From my new Time.com story: Add to the logistical glitches the wide-eyed excitement of doing everything for the first time, and what you get are lots of unscripted moments. On Wednesday, when President Obama entered a briefing room at the Old Executive office building, his staff and the press instinctively stood up. Obama was taken [...]

Maybe it just takes one Michelle to figure out another. Throughout the campaign, I was enormously impressed with what Michelle Cottle at The New Republic wrote about the often-misunderstood Michelle Obama. This piece from last March, for instance, was the first one I read that really felt like it got the unique figure–both modern and [...]

Today is January 22–also known as the anniversary of Roe v. Wade or the March for Life Day, depending on your ideological tilt. Which must mean it’s the day the incoming president signs an executive order dealing with the Mexico City policy, a ban on federal money to NGOs that provide abortions abroad, and does [...]

Someone sprinted down the hallway, so I knew something was up. More running around. The cameramen sprang to action, the scribblers grabbed their notebooks. President Obama had dropped into the White House briefing room. This is not the sort of thing that happens everyday. He said he wanted to “thank everybody for not just completely [...]

Here‘s the latest from the Hill on the stimulus negotiations. They’re still aiming for President’s Day, though, clearly, there’s a lot of work remaining to be done and that’s before you even get to reconciling the two versions. Given the CBO report it’ll be interesting to see if and how the Senate bill differs from [...]