Christopher Matthews is a political commentator and journalist best known as the longtime host of MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews." He contributed political commentary and analysis to The Weekly Standard between 1998 and 2000, with a focus on the Clinton presidency and Democratic Party politics. A former speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and longtime Washington insider, he is also the author of several bestselling books on American politics.
On a cold, drizzly night in November 1989, rumors flew in East Berlin that the Brandenburg Gate might be opened. People started to gather, hoping to be among the first to cross over to the West. Wading into the crowd, I tried to find out, with my limited German, what freedom meant to them. I asked,…
William J. Bennett has beaten Kenneth Starr into print. While The Death of Outrage, Bennett's new lickety-split critique of the Clinton-Lewinsky farrago, is no Book of Virtues, it is guaranteed to make its author the hottest guest on the TV talk-show circuit. What the short, little book lacks in…
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