Well, maybe if you’re Tipper Gore you wouldn’t, but I give the Ohio quartet some points for their name alone. Then there’s their first three albums, which brought out the best in the sort of swagger-induced, bluesy garage rock championed by better...

The Obamas aren’t shy about flirting in public either. At a fundraiser in September, the first lady called her husband’s graying hair “quite sexy” before the two locked lips onstage. How steamy can it get on the stump? Al and Tipper Gore set the bar...

Four years before she disappeared, Amelia Earhart was in Seattle... Presidential visits are somewhat common in Seattle. Barack Obama was here multiple times and is coming again later this year. Bill Clinton, shown here under the monorail with Hillary...

Pundits dissected the casual Barack-Michelle Obama fist-bump during one of the 2008 debates, but it played much better with the general public than the still-cringe-inducing Al and Tipper Gore kiss of 2000. In this election, the Republican primary...

In fact, not only are the anti-“bitch” campaigners the inheritors of Tipper Gore’s war on hip-hop – more fundamentally they are the latest in a long line of drab people made uncomfortable by popular music, from the bespectacled Christians who...

She will be a formidable humanizing force in the battles to come—perhaps this campaign’s Tipper Gore. The Romneyites had listened in respectful silence when Santorum’s often-emotional remarks were broadcast on the screen. They didn’t even take the bait...