Roger Michell’s “Hyde Park on Hudson” often feels like two separate movies. One film is about Franklin Roosevelt’s love affair with his sixth cousin. The other is about King George VI and his first visit to the United States.

Bill Murray as FDR?

Our higher education system is acknowledged as the best in the world, Yet, our primary and secondary educational system is currently failing our children. While we are scorned yet admired as the most powerful country in the world, other countries are also laughing at us for continuing to deliver such an inapt system of education.

On Wednesday, Dec. 7, the event that President Franklin D. Roosevelt said would live in infamy, turns 70 years old: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Chris Christie got laughs on the Letterman show last week when he showed up with a doughnut. I get what he was trying to do. People keep goofing on his girth, and a former White House doctor had just told CNN that if Christie were elected president, “I’m worried about this man dying in office.” So he figures that the best way to defuse the issue is to make light of his weight.

In the town of Madison, Florida, you can find the Colin P. Kelly memorial, a striking sculpture of four angels, their wings unfurled in the wind. The memorial was dedicated in 1943 to the name and heroics of a B-17 pilot whose plane was shot down just days after Pearl Harbor. Pilot Kelly did not survive the crash, but thanks to his courage and skill, all his crew did, jettisoning safely from the plane. After the memorial was dedicated in Madison Square Garden, it was then moved to Kelly's hometown - Madison - where it remains today. Few people know the angelic statue's namesake, however. It is better known as the "Four Freedoms Monument."

Much like one of his predecessors, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama has all but declared war on the United States Supreme Court.

The letter to the editor printed Wednesday, June 6 titled “Strong Unions mean strong middle class” is just plain wrong.

• 23 million Americans are out of work, have stopped looking for work, or are underemployed.

The story of Mexican braceros is seldom told in history books, but an exhibit at Chandler-Gilbert Community College aims to make their contributions to America's prosperity better known.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's first weekend at war was to be spent at his Camp David mountaintop retreat, where he was gathering his Cabinet after declaring Friday that U.S. troops were making progress in Iraq.

WASHINGTON - They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But what about an original sound recording? Twenty-five culturally important recordings - including an episode of "The Lone Ranger," President Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to Congress the day after the Pearl Harbor attack and one of the Rolling Stones' most famous songs - were selected Tuesday for preservation in a special sound archive.

Monday was Presidents Day, which meant school was out. I strongly suspect that our schoolchildren did not spend the day meditating on the leaders of our country. I suspect they found other diversions.

This week, with the opening of the historical romance "Hyde Park on Hudson," I finally get to do a Five Most list I've been thinking about for a while now: my favorite Bill Murray performances.

Democrat Rebecca Schneider appeared to be trouncing opponent Chris Gramazio in the 6th Congressional District Democratic primary Tuesday night.

Many of us know them only as the stuffy portraits on the walls of our childhood classrooms. But America’s presidents are a fascinating, eclectic lot: Some brought genius to the office, some forged greatness in the crucible of Washington politics, and some were freakier than a carnival sideshow.

Many of us know them only as the stuffy portraits on the walls of our childhood classrooms. But America’s presidents are a fascinating, eclectic lot: Some brought genius to the office, some forged greatness in the crucible of Washington politics, and some were freakier than a carnival sideshow.