Newsday

No matter which candidate wins the Republican Party's straw poll in Iowa on Aug. 14, one thing is clear: The domination of the GOP by southern conservatives is facing a serious challenge. Underlying the struggle between the right and the center in the Republican Party is a long-range phenomenon -- the decline of the South and the rise of the Sun Belt.

These two trends converge in the figure of George W. Bush, who combines the entrepreneurial fervor of traditional… more

The Monica Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment crisis that grew out of it have done more than reveal the degree to which politics in the United States has been polarized along partisan lines. The scandal has revealed the extent to which the language of morality has been corrupted by the concepts of law. In different ways, both conservatives and liberals have proven that they are incapable of … more