This column was written by Terence Samuel. Washington is a city in waiting -- waiting to see what happens with and to Karl Rove, with John Bolton, with Judy Miller; waiting to see whose military bases ...

PITTSBURGH –Arlen Specter has been a Republican officeholder for more than 40 years, but you hardly would have known it Saturday when he made his debut in front of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.

For years, Senator Arlen Specter, Republican from Pennsylvania, has been a moderate in a right-moving party. A relationship that came under considerable strain during the Bush years may have finally ...

Arlen Specter, reviled by the right, mistrusted by the left and ever unpredictable, was nonetheless a major force in the U.S. Senate for three decades. He cast what were often crucial votes on ...

PHILADELPHIA — Arlen Specter stopped by black churches on Sunday, paying homage to a vital bloc in his suddenly desperate race for the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat he has held for 30 ...

Arlen Specter’s tenure on the Senate Judiciary committee spanned three decades and led in his own unique way to shaping the modern Supreme Court. Specter at the 1987 Bork hearings Specter, 82, passed ...

Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long ...

Sen. Arlen Specter stunned Capitol Hill on Tuesday by switching parties and bringing Senate Democrats within one seat of a filibuster-proof majority. Specter’s move shocked and angered Republicans, ...

Whether you like the old codger or not, Arlen Specter knows how to win elections. At least that’s what he and his surrogates have been telling Pennsylvania voters—over and over again—in his dead-heat ...