Sen. Blanche Lincoln, the last Democratic holdout for today's 8 p.m. vote, announced on the Senate floor that she will support the health-care debate—but not a public option.
The last-minute wrangling over the health-care bill shows just how little control the president has over his own party. Matt Miller on why Obama needs to crack the whip.
Christina Ricci works the angles in Alexander McQueen, Abbie Cornish stuns in violet, and Zoe Saldana goes long and lacy. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best looks of the week.
His approach to the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed New York trial offers something for everyone—and decisions on nothing. Obama may be the anti-Bush, Lee Siegel argues—but he’s failing to govern.
Nixon’s victory over Helen Gahagan Douglas was one of the nastiest in history, and a prototype for today's GOP smear tactics. Sally Denton revisits the infamous Senate campaign.
This week a research scientist was unmasked as blogger Belle de Jour, inspiration for Showtime's Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Olivia Cole on a sex scandal's surprisingly happy ending.
As closing arguments began, prosecutors described accused murderess Amanda Knox as a sex-and-drug-crazed sociopath while tears streamed down her face. By Barbie Latza Nadeau.
You never want to get stuck on a plane with nothing to read, which is why I walked into an airport bookstore and bought a copy of Eagles and Empire...
Steve Inskeep is host of Morning Edition the most widely heard radio news program in the United States. He co-hosts the program with Renee Montagne.
In the late 1980s, I spent a month in Naples chasing a story with my husband, Gerald, on the Camorra, Naples' secret society that is really just a ...
Trisha Posner is a journalist and author. This is Not Your Mother’s Menopause was her journey through menopause, hormone-free. Her follow-up was No Hormones, No Fear.
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