President Robert Mugabe's regime struck at his rivals Thursday two weeks before Zimbabwe's presidential runoff, twice detaining his challenger and jailing the No. 2 opposition leader to face treason charges. ...more

June 13, 2008

They say that every president gets the psychoanalyst he deserves. And every Hamlet gets his Rosencrantz. ...more

June 3, 2008

Republican insiders see the bitter criticism in Scott McClellan's memoir, "What Happened," as a payback for his abrupt firing as White House press secretary in the spring of 2006. ...more

June 2, 2008

Near the end of "What Happened," Scott McClellan's tough-love critique of President Bush and his failed presidency, he recounts a bizarre and telling moment in the Oval Office. ...more

June 1, 2008

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan defended his bombshell book about the Bush administration on Thursday, saying he didn't speak up against the overselling of war in Iraq at the time because he, like other Americans, gave the president the benefit of the doubt. ...more

May 30, 2008

As President Bush's press secretary, Scott McClellan was a dutiful practitioner of the swift, efficient and highly coordinated strategy the White House typically employs to take on Bush's critics. ...more

May 29, 2008

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war." ...more

May 28, 2008

The top U.S. military commander in Iraq said Wednesday that he is unlikely to call for another troop buildup in Iraq, even if security deteriorates after the extra American troops return home this summer. ...more

April 10, 2008

Immersed for two days in the intense world of Mideast peacemaking, President Bush looked relieved Friday to see something of the landscape all the fighting is about. ...more

January 12, 2008

Despite agreeing on the outline for a new global warming deal, the White House quibbled with it Saturday and said it does not sufficiently address the role of developing nations. ...more

December 16, 2007