I’ve written and read too much about Barack Obama, and I am of an age that hefting a 571-page door-stopper of a book, not to...

Finally, the balloting has begun. By the time the polls open on Saturday morning, election officials predict that as high as 50 percent of the...

Ah, the quadrennial rites of late summer! Presidential candidates emplane for Europe, the Mideast or anywhere else they can burnish their foreign policy credentials and...

The question of whether to build rail transit or not has sucked the air out of Honolulu politics this primary season. Don’t get me wrong,...

Herewith, the first in a series on political campaign rituals, being performed as I speak and you read. We will begin with the campaign narrative....

I suppose whether you call the health care law recently upheld by the Supreme Court “Obamacare” or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)...

You’ve probably seen the ad by now. An off-camera interviewer stops a muumuu-clad local woman on the street, hands her a sheet of paper, and...

Dear reader, please indulge me. I’ll be jumping around this week, because the political news is coming too fast and furiously. So let’s start with...

Kirk Caldwell is getting inside my head. I’m not kidding here. He’s messing with me. A couple of days after the June 5 filing deadline,...