Kirsten Powers joined Fox News as a Political Analyst in 2004 and began writing regular political columns for the New York Post during the 2008 presidential election cycle. She brings a unique perspective to her analysis from her experience working in politics, including serving in the Clinton Administration from 1993-1998 and working in New York state and city politics. She has a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland and attended the Georgetown University Law Center for a year and a half before being lured to America Online, Inc. in 1998 to serve as their Vice President for International Communications. Her writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Observer, Elle magazine and American Prospect online.
A little over a year into his first term, President Obama finally lived up to his election-year promise to hold health-care negotiations on C-SPAN. Better late than never, I suppose. Unfortunately, both sides came...
February 26, 2010 12:00 AMSomewhere, Bill Clinton is smil ing. After demonizing Clinton's trian gulation of politics during his terms, President Obama was forced in his State of the Union speech last night to mimic the last Democratic...
January 28, 2010 12:00 AM
What a difference a year makes. On the anniversary of Barack Obama's swearing-in, Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown grabbed the prize Senate seat held by liberal icon Ted Kennedy for nearly 50 years -- throwing...
January 21, 2010 12:00 AMWhat will health-care reform cost? This question has become the obsession distracting us from the moral imperative to provide health care to all Americans. The richest, most powerful, most amazing nation in the...
December 14, 2009 12:00 AMThe battle to pass health-care reform is teaching pro- choicers some bitter les sons. Abortion-rights supporters went berserk Saturday, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi let pro-life Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.)...
November 12, 2009 12:00 AMNOW that we've had a beer summit on race, how about a wine sum mit on sexism? In the latest edition of an online feature called "Mouthpiece Theater," Washington Post political reporter Dana Milbank attempted a...
August 03, 2009 1:15 AMNOW that we've had a beer summit on race, how about a wine sum mit on sexism? In the latest edition of an online feature called "Mouthpiece Theater," Washington Post political reporter Dana Milbank attempted a joke...
August 03, 2009 12:00 AMIT turns out that Craigslist is about a lot more than second-hand furniture or an apartment rental: Prosecutors charge that it's a prime part of the modern slave trade. The Web site has become one of the most...
July 27, 2009 1:24 AMRAISE your hand if you're sick of the phrase "wise Latina." By now, most of America must be able to recite verbatim the assertion of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor that a wise Latina would likely reach a...
July 15, 2009 2:12 AMON Wednesday, representatives of the nation's hospitals gathered with Vice President Joe Biden at the White House, solemnly vowing to help defray health-care costs. The hospitals agreed to give up $155 billion over 10...
July 10, 2009 3:28 AMWHY is the Obama administration defending the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military? This doesn't just break his past promises -- it conflicts with his oath to keep the nation safe. Gay-rights...
June 11, 2009 3:10 AMPAKISTAN'S ex-ambassador to Britain, Akbar Ahmed, a leading authority on Islam, has some advice for President Obama on his speech to the Muslim world this week. Because Obama's father was Muslim, Ahmed says he...
June 02, 2009 3:02 AMHOUSE and Senate Democrats waxed hysterical about the urgency of closing down Guantanamo Bay when George W. Bush was president. Now that it's their responsibility, the urgency has miraculously abated. Yesterday,...
May 21, 2009 2:25 AMOFTEN accused of taking on too many issues, President Obama is catching flak from some of his most ardent liberal supporters, who say he's neglecting the paramount international human-rights crisis -- the Darfur...
May 11, 2009 1:05 AMRIGHTIES have been railing against President Obama's recent foreign-policy for ays. When Obama allegedly "bowed" to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, they screamed. When he told Europeans that at times America has been...
April 22, 2009 1:18 AMSHOULD he stay or should he go? To listen to the media and many in Congress, President Obama is about to kick Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to the curb over the AIG bonus fiasco. Friday, Bloomberg News...
March 23, 2009 12:53 AMIF you're going to have a member of your own party go rogue, you could do worse than Sen. Evan Bayh. As the week began, speculation was rampant that moderate Democrats in Congress weren't too keen on key parts of...
March 20, 2009 12:41 AMDID Nancy Pelosi just throw Harry Reid under the bus? The controversial "Em ployee Free Choice Act" - known to its foes as "card check" - looks to be withering on the vine. Speaker Pelosi has punted the...
March 11, 2009 12:22 AMSOCIETY calls them pros titutes, but it would be more accurate to call them slaves. Hollywood glamorizes the "happy hooker" and the media deceive by portraying the exception (the woman who is enjoying the "high...
March 02, 2009 3:14 AMSO, it's come to this: The man who was maligned as unpa triotic for not wearing a flag pin is playing the patriotism card. The New York Times reported Saturday that President Obama called three Republican senators...
February 12, 2009 2:40 AMAFTER defending President Obama on TV last week, I found a curt message on my voicemail: "I have major problems with this stimulus package." It was the first-ever call from my mother expressing unhappiness with...
February 06, 2009 2:04 AMWHO knew that saying a prayer could cause so much trouble? Other than James Madison, that is. Tomorrow, a DC Federal District Court judge will hear from an atheist group challenging prayer at the presidential...
January 14, 2009 1:44 AMWHAT kind of "change" will Barack Obama offer on the Palestinian-Israeli mess? Since the conflict erupted back onto the front pages, his response has been disheartening to anti-war liberals, who overall have high...
January 06, 2009 1:36 AMOOPS, he did it again. President-elect Barack Obama enraged the Democratic left this week with the announcement that popular evangelical pastor Rick Warren will give the invocation at the presidential inauguration...
December 20, 2008 2:40 AMBarack Obama is experiencing the first "scandal" of his presidency before he's taken office - or so sayeth the media. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is accused of (among much else) conspiring to sell or trade Obama's...
December 16, 2008 2:57 AM'IS he nuts?" So asked the Drudge Report in linking to an article questioning disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's mental health. The story quoted one Chicagoan: "When you know you're being watched, why...
December 12, 2008 12:41 AMDOES the shocking death of Wal-Mart worker Jdimytai Damour in his Long Island store prove that American society has abandoned all decency? We've seen this before, some will say - look at the crush at a 1979 WHO...
December 05, 2008 1:58 AMIN a recent Satur day Night Live skit, a lip-biting Bill Clinton (Darrell Hammond) told the audience, "I'm here to make a very important announcement. After the holiday, Barack Obama will officially appoint me the...
December 01, 2008 1:59 AMWHILE most of Democratic America is basking in the Obama victory glow, one contingent despairs: liberal bloggers and activists. Shocked that the man who ran as a post-partisan candidate seeking the middle ground...
November 24, 2008 12:00 AM'I'M with the government, and I'm here to help you." If that's a laugh line to you, you're not alone: Only 17 percent of Americans have faith in Uncle Sam, the lowest level in recorded history. Which will be a...
November 19, 2008 3:41 AM
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