To borrow the title of a classic modern novel, "Things Fall Apart." In just decades, Americans have gone from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal to George W. Bush's Rash Deal.
If Barack Obama had consulted 100 wise Democrats about selecting Joe Biden as his running mate, asking them, "What would be your biggest concern?," he would have received 100 identical responses.
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain worked to cool the partisan heat of the financial crisis, with both calling for Congress to regroup and act quickly to prevent a feared financial collapse and foster confidence in the banking system
My family doesn't use credit much. We pay off our charge cards every month. We drive used cars. We paid off our house mortgage early and have not refinanced. We carefully live well within our means. In fact, until very recently, my "apartment" in Washington has been my office.
Key events for the week of September 19 - 25, 2008
Each month in 2008, CNN Student News will be "Talking Democracy" by introducing an election-related topic on the show and online. From caucuses to conventions and primaries to polls, CNN Student News will be breaking down these election-year concepts for students and teachers. Use the questions on this page to test your knowledge of the presidential election process, then check the answers to see how you did.
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a registered independent, talked with CNN's Campbell Brown about America's infrastructure, what scares them most and what can be done about the billion-dollar problem.
Violence in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince is holding back the nation's dreams of building a viable tourism industry, despite its success in neighboring Caribbean nations
Your paycheck is shrinking, gas costs $4 a gallon, and your house is losing value. Here's what can be done
In the words of Vice President John Nance Garner, the vice presidency "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss."
To borrow the title of a classic modern novel, "Things Fall Apart." In just decades, Americans have gone from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal to George W. Bush's Rash Deal.
If Barack Obama had consulted 100 wise Democrats about selecting Joe Biden as his running mate, asking them, "What would be your biggest concern?," he would have received 100 identical responses.
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain worked to cool the partisan heat of the financial crisis, with both calling for Congress to regroup and act quickly to prevent a feared financial collapse and foster confidence in the banking system
My family doesn't use credit much. We pay off our charge cards every month. We drive used cars. We paid off our house mortgage early and have not refinanced. We carefully live well within our means. In fact, until very recently, my "apartment" in Washington has been my office.
Key events for the week of September 19 - 25, 2008
Each month in 2008, CNN Student News will be "Talking Democracy" by introducing an election-related topic on the show and online. From caucuses to conventions and primaries to polls, CNN Student News will be breaking down these election-year concepts for students and teachers. Use the questions on this page to test your knowledge of the presidential election process, then check the answers to see how you did.
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a registered independent, talked with CNN's Campbell Brown about America's infrastructure, what scares them most and what can be done about the billion-dollar problem.
Violence in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince is holding back the nation's dreams of building a viable tourism industry, despite its success in neighboring Caribbean nations
Your paycheck is shrinking, gas costs $4 a gallon, and your house is losing value. Here's what can be done
In the words of Vice President John Nance Garner, the vice presidency "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss."
Use this information to understand how polls are conducted.
Thirty-five years ago today, Nixon was the first President to use the term "God bless America" in an official speech. A look at how the phrase has become de rigueur in American politics ever since.
Use this explainer to help students understand the reasons for and history of daylight-saving time.
Hillary Clinton and John McCain are arguing that Barack Obama is too green for the job. But history shows that when it comes to the presidency, experience doesn't guarantee success
Some historians credit Republican President Warren G. Harding with running the first campaign that made use of celebrity endorsement.
"What this company needs is an owner," declared Sam Zell, after completing the $8.2 billion deal that put him in charge of the Tribune Co., which owns newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and Newsday. "It needs someone who accepts the responsibility for what this company does."
Christmas walks into Colonial Williamsburg on boots, battle-dress soft soles padding across cobblestones in the dusk of December's first Sunday.
Up to 80,000 items at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library are unaccounted for, probably because of haphazard record-keeping and inventory procedures, officials said Thursday.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., had a message for Wall Street on Monday while speaking from the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square.
Never mind the hearings on detainee rights. The Supreme Court has already stepped in where Congress failed to act
1. Dumb as a limestone brick: Indiana's misguided bid for tourists
Currently, most of us reach our physical peak between twenty and thirty and begin a steady decline after that. By seventy, we have lost 40 percent of our maximum breathing capacity, muscle and bone mass have declined, body fat has increased, and sight and hearing have gotten worse. We may want to chase life and live longer, but not at the expense of function, both of mind and body.
Use this explainer to help students understand the reasons for and history of daylight-saving time.
The Federal Reserve Board's governors have grown steadily richer in the last year as President George Bush's appointments have quietly reshaped the board of governors.
In 1933, the U.S. Senate passed a bill mandating a 30-hour workweek. Alabama Senator Hugo Black, still a few years from the Supreme Court, was the sponsor.
Sen. Arlen Specter, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, held hearings Tuesday on presidential signing statements.
At home and abroad, he was the locomotive president, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future.
Awash as we are in the cranky appraisals of our war in Iraq and the congressional projects to end it summarily, we have every reason to conclude that for some Americans a real war is not nearly as amusing as one produced in Hollywood. A real war is a lot more difficult to script than a war headed for the silver screen. Inopportune events take place. Even uncovenanted happenings occur. During World War II more than 14,000 American POWs died in German and Japanese hands. President Franklin Roosevelt had not anticipated such brutal treatment. Other unanticipated enormities took place, for instance, the dithering in the hedgerows of France after the D-Day landings. Still, no congressional investigations were convened to distract our leaders from bringing the war to a diplomatically viable conclusion.
Presidents, in wartime, tend to think they're above the law; commanders-in-chief who rule absolutely.
High oil prices. Inflation fears. Ballooning deficits. Guerrilla war. Bad news? Not for gold. The asset that shines in bad times has been on a tear recently, surpassing $500 an ounce, a level not s...
In the months after our invasion of Iraq -- our liberation of Iraq -- there was a neat little peace movement. It was composed of the likes of linguist Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark and various lesser patheticoes who all looked like they belonged on the streets of Berkeley, California, some with begging pots in their hands.
Ever been stumped by a question when you're on the road? The answer could now be in the palm of your hand.
The United States and China ended strategic talks with Washington urging Beijing to become more of a global player.
James Bond's car -- really, the James Bond car -- will be going up for auction in January. Cars custom-built for Al Capone and Hank Williams Jr. will also be for sale at the same event.
James Bond's car -- really, the James Bond car --will be going up for auction in January. Cars custom-built for Al Capone and Hank Williams, Jr. will also be for sale at the same event.
It was a U.S. President -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- who campaigned on the slogan "Don't change horses in the middle of the stream."
In what the White House promoted as "a major speech," President George W. Bush compared the struggle against terrorism to the Cold War, "Islamo-fascism" to communism and the fugitive cave-dweller Osama bin Laden to Adolf Hitler.
LETTERS TO FORTUNE
In the enduring American tragedy of New Orleans, President George W. Bush has been libeled.
When polio was a scourge, it most frequently struck very young children, and today the vast majority of polio survivors are middle-aged or older. That's the direct result of a breakthrough announced 50 years ago Tuesday.
Buttons and stickers and signs, oh my!
In a news conference Wednesday, President Bush urged lawmakers to talk to their constituents about solutions for Social Security, denied the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq is crumbling and expressed concern about rising oil prices. The following is a transcript of his remarks:
Reaction to President Bush's speech Wednesday night was sharply divided along partisan lines.
Members of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Friday assembled an array of witnesses to air concerns over what is publicly known about the Bush plan to change the Social Security System by including individual investment in the stock market.
Years ago, before I began writing a column, one of the nation's great columnists gave me some wise advice.
British leader Tony Blair is the first head of government to meet with President Bush since his re-election, a reaffirmation of the long-acknowledged "special relationship" between the United States and Britain.
With two weeks to go until Americans go to the polls, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry concentrated their efforts on the campaign trail Tuesday in the showdown states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The following is a partial transcript of the debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry held Thursday night at the University of Miami. The topic of the debate is foreign affairs, and the moderator is Jim Lehrer of PBS:
Vice President Dick Cheney addressed Republican National Convention delegates Wednesday. This is a transcript of his remarks.
Sen. Zell Miller, of Georgia, was the keynote speaker Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention. Miller, a Democrat, has broken with his party and sided with President Bush on such issues his handling of the war against terror. Here is a transcript of his remarks:
U.S. presidents have guided us to wartime victory and plunged us into economic depression. All of their triumphs and failures can teach us a thing or two about our own careers.
Sen. John McCain of Arizona addressed delegates at the Republican National Convention on Monday.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate, gave a prime time speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday. This is a transcript of his remarks.
Of all the ways being considered to honor Ronald Reagan, the push to put his face on the dime -- replacing that of Franklin Roosevelt -- is unlikely to happen.
The following is a transcript of the eulogy given Friday by former President George H.W. Bush at Ronald Reagan's funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington:
Ronald Reagan's face could one day adorn the $10 bill or half the dimes minted in the country, if fans of the late president get their way.
In dedicating the World War II Memorial, President Bush addressed more than 140,000 people who had gathered on Washington's National Mall.
President Bush is a man of tremendous resolve. In a test of wills, he usually prevails. When someone else prevails, it's not just a surprise -- it's also the political Play of the Week.
If there are not more lawyers working in Washington, DC than any other city in the world, on a per capita basis, it's a surprise to me. The nation's capital has a disproportionate number of civil and criminal courts (from the D.C. Superior court to the U.S. Supreme Court). And of course, it is home to Congress along with a remarkable array of administrative agencies. All this legal apparatus, needless to say, results in a surfeit of lawyers, both inside and outside of the government.
To be an inventor can be a glorious calling. But how do you make a living? The difficulty of turning a brilliant idea into a brilliant fortune is what led Mac Woodward, 68, and his wife Cecile Wen...
In wartime, as everyone knows, federal spending must go up. The aftermath of Sept. 11 is no different. The U.S. needed to rout al Qaeda from Afghanistan, tighten airport and border security, and he...
George W. Bush never had the kind of honeymoon period that other Presidents enjoyed. His election was too tumultuous for that. But the most ghastly act of terrorism in U.S. history is about to brin...
Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg by Christopher Ogden Little Brown, 615 pages
The federal budget may be close to balanced, but the U.S. government's fiscal problems are far from over. Looming on the horizon is the Social Security system. That problem stems from a sad but una...
Warning: Don't spend your budget surplus before the check clears. True, Congress and the President seem sure to balance the budget either this year or next, but it's the strong economy that's makin...
Where is he now? I don't mean Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. He's dead--and likely worse. If Franklin Roosevelt (his nemesis) had any pull with God, McCormick is currently r...
When did big government begin? Conservatives of all ages tend to think federal spending went out of control around their tenth birthday. Commentators who have a little more historical perspective t...
Unloading valuable assets is common at IBM these days. Nearly half the work force has been dismissed, close to $2 billion in real estate was sold off in 1994, and now the cream of its vast art coll...
You talk about a labor lobby. Well, it is a child compared to this utility lobby . . . ((It is)) the most powerful, dangerous lobby . . . that has ever been created by any organization in this coun...
There's no disputing the final count. Bill Clinton won 43% of the popular vote and 370 electoral votes, while George Bush took 38% of the vote and 168 electoral ballots. Question is, does that marg...
History tells us that the two years leading up to a presidential election are usually the best of times for small investors. And, at least until recently, these past two years were no exception. St...
CONSUMERS ARE UP-TIGHT and worried, their confidence battered by big layoffs. Business executives are equally glum. Says Robert C. Snyder, president of Quanex, a $650-million-a-year specialty-metal...
Just like today's most sophisticated pirates, yesterday's used an underground banking system to hide their loot. This system was literally underground, of course, and spadefuls of doubloons still t...
YOU CAN'T FIND a list of best-sellers these days without a good representation of business books. That is a relatively recent phenomenon. One of the first management books to make the big time was ...
When I was running IBM, I was driven strongly by the fear of failure, fear of being counted out as a son trying to follow a father. Fight in a company comes through fear or competitiveness, wanting...
As we tap out these words on our trusty 101-key enhanced keyboard, the Dow Jones industrial average is around 2700 and also looking enhanced. Approaching the second anniversary of the great thud of...
In a year with so many candidates, choosing which campaign buttons to store in the attic can be even more difficult than predicting the next President. The election will be decided in November, but...
When, belatedly, the experts were called in, the situation was entirely familiar to them. Said an investment banker who specialized in newspaper properties: ''I saw this all the time. The business ...
A fellow could get a touch of cognitive dissonance brooding over the material in Trends in Family Income: 1970-1986, the latest unsnappily titled publication of the Congressional Budget Office. The...
We confess to being slow off the mark on the scandal referred to in the headline above and promise that next time we won't dally 47 years when it comes to elaborating articles in the American Journ...
Except for the author's opinions on substantive issues, Tip O'Neill's memoirs make marvelous reading. The former Speaker is a great storyteller, and like Jimmy Durante he has a million of them -- i...
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