1.   Postwar politics made extravagant claims for its own power, and unsurprisingly failed to deliver.

2.   An Indianapolis attorney is giving Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., a run for his money as Indiana politics makes a shift from Republican power brokers.

3.   And politics will make cutting tricky.

4.   As an ideal, politics is making public institutions work.

5.   But his evolutionary politics made him a hero for Mexicans and even some Americans.

6.   But it is also true that domestic politics makes the idea, if not the reality, of strategic cooperation appealing.

7.   But now presidential politics has made rivals of two men whose families have known each other for more than half a century.

8.   But politics makes that route impossible.

9.   But the United States is hardly the only country where domestic politics make it hard to turn the Titanic away from the icebergs.