Joel K. Goldstein is the Vincent C. Immel Professor of Law at the Saint Louis University School of Law. He is the author of The Modern American Vice Presidency: The Transformation of a Political Institution and other works about the presidency, vice pres

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In 2007, former Senators Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, and George Mitchell established their Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) imperial project front group. Among other issues addressed, warmaking's prioritized. Its board of directors include: • John

Raising private donations and securing research grants that would buoy a strained budget at the University of Tennessee's Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy will be among Matt Murray's top priorities as the center's newly named director, the Un

By: Christina Bellantoni and Terence Burlij President Obama delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Photo by Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images. President Obama delivered his third State of the Union address Tuesday night -- a previ

WASHINGTON -- Although he appears headed to victory in Saturday's South Carolina primary, Newt Gingrich faces skepticism from grassroots Republican activists and officeholders, who increasingly prefer Mitt Romney as their first choice for the Republican