Politics

In August 2017, shortly after John F. Kelly became White House chief of staff, he convened crucial meetings on Afghanistan at President Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J. Top officials from the Pentagon and the CIA, the director of national intelligence, diplomats and lawmakers huddled with Trump as Kelly and others urged him not to … Read more

If George Bush’s reelection team were a rock group, it probably would be called Mary and the White Boys. Just look at the photographs. Although official Washington remains a town blanketed by white men in dark suits, that was rarely so striking as last December, when Bush announced the people in charge of his political … Read more

* Westminster’s militant Firefighters’ Union is intimidating this city’s 40,000 registered voters, deluging it with misleading mailings, including outright lies, violating even the sworn testimony of Westminster’s fire chief, in a way that would make professional propagandists proud. For example, the union has tried to blame budget cuts in their outrageous overtime for the death … Read more

Marcus Scott is looking for a Democratic presidential candidate who will be rude to Donald Trump. Kara LaMarche wants an upbeat, positive approach. Ben Dion wants a nominee with experience and gravitas. Linds Jakows has had it with older white men in power. Those voters, like fellow Democrats across the country, seek very different things … Read more

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking no state salary but has pulled in millions of dollars from investments and private income in his first full year as California governor. Schwarzenegger’s campaign on Friday released tax returns for 2002-04, showing that his income stayed strong after he made the jump from entertainer to politician. He has not … Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses emergency preparedness Tuesday during a visit to a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection station in Colfax. (Rich Pedroncelli / AP) Following the deadliest year of wildfires in California history, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed $305 million in spending to accelerate the removal of thousands of acres of dense, … Read more

Sens. Jim Jeffords and Chris Dodd sat in armchairs in Dodd’s office in the Russell Senate Office Building. The Vermont Republican and the Connecticut Democrat, their ties loosened, drank sodas and talked that last Friday in March about money for special education. Jeffords’ frustrations spilled out. He complained that even though he was chairman of … Read more

Conservative House Republicans continued sniping at each other Sunday as they argued over responsibility for a failed rebellion against House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who engineered the Republican takeover of the House in the 1994 elections. New York Rep. Bill Paxon, who either jumped or was pushed from his House leadership post last week after … Read more

William Schanning is a male secretary who usually is treated “like one of the girls.” But not always–it can be an advantage being a man in a job traditionally held by women. Schanning, who is near the top of the state Senate’s clerical heap as secretary of the Business and Professions Committee, says being male … Read more

Mitt Romney’s physician described the Republican presidential nominee as an “energetic, strong, physically fit” man who looks younger than his age in a letter released Friday that offered the first glimpse into the state of the candidate’s health. Dr. Randall D. Gaz, who practices at Massachusetts General Hospital and has been Romney’s personal physician since … Read more