Senate
8/31/2009 12:28 PM ET
Speaking with Ted Kennedy's niece, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, on Monday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith wondered: "Does a Kennedy belong in your uncle's old Senate seat?" Townsend replied: ...
8/28/2009 12:58 PM ET
Sheryl Gay Stolberg frets about a "coarser, more partisan" Senate while paying tribute to Kennedy, ignoring how Kennedy himself contributed to the coarseness with his demagogic attack on Supreme ...
8/26/2009 3:43 PM ET
Liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy was "one of the most effective lawmakers in the history of the Senate," while conservative Sen. Jesse Helms's "mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that ...
8/20/2009 5:18 PM ET
Times writer Abby Goodnough takes Sen. Kennedy at face value for his reasons to change Massachusetts law governing Senate vacancies, a law he helped put in place in 2004 for partisan purposes
8/11/2009 12:24 PM ET
How convenient for the liberal senator from Connecticut.
6/17/2009 1:15 PM ET
The Times let us know by word four the Republican Party affiliation of Sen. John Ensign, who confessed to having an affair. By contrast, the paper has often failed to even mention the party ...
6/3/2009 9:49 AM ET
Oklahoma senator cites recent trend against global warming legislation; dismisses House efforts and claims EPA action to impose it can be stalled.
5/8/2009 2:33 PM ET
The New York Democrat's voting record is safely left-of-center, but she's never been liberal enough to suit the Times.
5/4/2009 3:25 PM ET
After Sen. Specter's defection, the Times gives some no-doubt well-meant advice to the GOP: Avoid "ideological purity" and show more "flexibility" on both social and economic issues, or risk ...
4/1/2009 1:36 PM ET
More slant from legal reporter Neil Lewis, who has little sympathy for conservative arguments.
