McManus: Is there a lesson in Carter’s presidency for Biden?
WASHINGTON — History isn’t kind to one-term presidents, at least in the short run. For most of the last 40 years, Jimmy Carter’s presidency has been…
WASHINGTON — History isn’t kind to one-term presidents, at least in the short run. For most of the last 40 years, Jimmy Carter’s presidency has been…
WASHINGTON — When the 1996 presidential campaign approached, Bill Clinton faced an uphill struggle to win a second term. His biggest legislative proposal, a sweeping healthcare…
There was finally white smoke coming from Santa Ana Mater Dei with the naming of a new football coach after months of waiting. Frank McManus,…
WASHINGTON — The Chinese balloon that floated across the United States this month, apparently on a mission to collect intelligence, began its journey as a curiosity.…
WASHINGTON — According to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grand plan, this was to be the hard winter that would break Ukraine and divide its allies in…
WASHINGTON — The television split screen told the story. On one side, Republicans in the House of Representatives labored through the fourth of the 15 ballots…
WASHINGTON — Last year, as congressional elections approached, pundits offered a bold prediction: November would bring a “red wave,” a Republican sweep in the House and…
WASHINGTON — The 845-page final report of the House Committee on Jan. 6, which finally arrived late Thursday night, is an epic. Like “Moby Dick” or…
WASHINGTON — More than a decade ago, scholars began pointing to a troubling global trend: a “democratic recession.” Dozens of countries were drifting away from democracy…