Evan Thomas

Rethinking end-of-life care.

Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate sometimes liked to raise money by invoking Teddy Kennedy as a caricature of big, fat, out-of-control liberalism.

A scion of wealth and power, Ted Kennedy became the Senate's great lion by fighting for the poor and the dispossessed

Chanequa Campbell rose from Brooklyn's gritty Bed-Stuy neighborhood to the pinnacle of the ivy league. Then somebody died in her dorm.

North Korea's First Family Isn't Like You and Me. (Or anyone, really.)

One is a Latina firebrand, the other a model of judicial restraint. It's the latter who will appear before the senate judiciary committee. But it's the former, conservative critics fear, who will sit on the highest court in the land. Will the real Sonia Sotomayor please stand up?

He was a control freak whose toughest job was shaping his own legacy.

How bloggers turned me into the poster child for the argument that the liberal press loves Obama.

Compared with their World War II counterparts, today's senior U.S. military officers are so weighed down with medals that they appear in danger of listing to port.

A long row of windows runs along the seventh floor of the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Va. Some belong to the office of the director of Central Intelligence (the DCI) and some to the deputy director of operations (the DDO).

Lehman Brothers disappeared with Hank Paulson's reputation. He wants it back

Smart decisions don't grow in a vacuum. The most successful presidents recognize the fact and encourage debate—and even rivalry—between their advisers. They do their best to consider the options fully. All the same, it's harder than many people might imagine for our national leaders to keep the field of opinions from turning into a monoculture.

Paul Krugman has emerged as Obama's toughest liberal critic. He's deeply skeptical of the bank bailout and pessimistic about the economy. Why the establishment worries he may be right.

President Obama has an ambitious agenda and an economy to fix. Yet hundreds of top government posts stand empty. One reason: over-the-top ethics rules are disqualifying or driving away some of the best and the brightest.

With help from a former UBS banker, the Feds are demystifying how the Swiss do business. Inside the tradecraft.

A new film on an epic old game.

Long before Bernie, a prestigious swindler took a big fall.

It's time to rein in a hyper-legal culture that has warped the nation's schools.

There's no way to know why he sees politics as he does. But few seem surprised.

Obama's new team is heavy with Rubinistas, but nobody's perfect—even, it turns out, Rubin.

During the campaign, he pledged to be a unifying leader. Good thing for Obama there are other presidents whose experiences he can draw on, including one, in particular, from his home state.

McCain's inner circle altered the style, feel and direction of the campaign. The candidate's best hope was to bring down Obama.

Obama's aides worried the Clintons might steal the show. McCain revved up his campaign with an impulsive choice—Sarah Palin.

By late spring of 2007, John McCain's campaign was adrift, if not sinking. Then the candidate found a new narrative: the comeback.

Would lowering the legal age help colleges curb alcohol abuse?

The glamorous wartime British sleuths knew how to work a party.

By firing bad teachers and paying good ones six-figure salaries, Michelle Rhee just might save D.C.'s schools.

Russia's retro behavior in Georgia provides an opportunity for American voters to ponder how their next president would react in a time of crisis

If America's serious about going green, some tradeoffs will have to be made.

Back and forth, back and forth. Wasn't this going to be a campaign free of the usual partisan bickering?