Tim Russert

The Battle for America 2008 The Story of an Extraordinary Election Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson Viking: 432 pp., $29.95 For the record, Hillary Clinton's chief strategist for the 2008 Democratic primaries, Mark Penn, remarked in a March 2007 memo...

Yes, it was exactly one year Saturday since the death of Tim Russert, and below, is "MTP's" tribute from yesterday. What have we learned over the year since Russert's tragic and untimely death? 1.) He was irreplaceable. 2.) Which......

by Mark Silva Former Vice President Dick Cheney pressed hard for a presidential pardon for "Scooter"" Libby, his former chief of staff convicted of obstruction of justice in the federal probe of the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity......

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 11 - 17 in PDF format This week's TV Movies JEALOUSY: Rachel (Lea Michele, left) and Finn (Cory Monteith) chat in class, upsetting Quinn (Dianna Agron) on 'Glee,' at......

I met Tim Russert only once, before a "Meet the Press" debate between two Senate candidates from my home state of Pennsylvania. Russert was engaging, impressively au courant with Keystone State politics and, well, a nice guy. I also admired his work,...

Victory comes as ABC negotiating for host George Stephanopoulos to join "Good Morning America" as a host....

Politico.com's Mike Allen is reporting that the Republican National Committee is set to announce Tampa, Fla., as the site of its 2012 convention, beating out competing bids from Phoenix and Salt Lake City. If you want to mark your calendar,......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama has tapped a bipartisan pair of budget hawks to help steer a path out of the deficits that have consumed the federal government; Alan Simpson, the former Republican senator from Wyoming, and Erskine Bowles,......

Fox News has made clear its disdain for President Obama for most of his presidency -- for example by ignoring some of his prime-time appearances and giving a platform to commentators like Glenn Beck to fuel conspiracy theories about the......

A Nevada judge said Monday that Democratic presidential candidate Dennis J. Kucinich must be included in today's candidate debate in Nevada. Senior Clark County District Judge Charles Thompson said if Kucinich was excluded, he would issue an injunction...

ACCORDING TO the defense lawyers at his trial, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby didn't lie to investigators about his role in outing covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. He was just so darn busy with pressing national security matters that he kept forgetting the...

John McCain's image takes a drubbing in the world of Web video, particularly in comparison to his likely opponent for president, Barack Obama. Nearly 51,000 people subscribe to Obama's channel on YouTube, the most popular video sharing site, compared to...