Yet another sign of the apocalypse is the spectacle of American presidential candidates consumed with putting lipstick on pigs. All last week, it was lipstick-on-a-pig this, lipstick-on-a-pig that,… ...

When Barack Obama told a crowd at a campaign event on Tuesday, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” the McCain campaign swiftly took offense, claiming the analogy was ...

The latest overblown irrelevance in a presidential campaign full of them was the oh-so-big flap over Barack Obama's not very original comment about pigs and lipstick. ("You can put lipstick on a ...

Now, in the wake of Barack Obama’s use of the saying and the McCain/Palin attacks against him over it, “putting lipstick on a pig” has become the latest flashpoint in the presidential ...

"I think they put some lipstick on a pig," McCain said, "but it’s still a pig." On Feb. 1, 2007, McCain blasted a Senate resolution that would have criticized President Bush’s strategy in Iraq.

Days before Donald Trump accepts the Republican nomination for president, the New Yorker has published a regret-laden interview with the ghostwriter of his best-selling 1987 memoir, “The Art of ...