For only the second time in two decades, neither presumptive nominee for U.S. president is an alumnus of Yale’s oldest and most secretive senior society. (The only other time in recent history that happened was in 1996, when Bill Clinton faced Republican Bob Dole.)

Casting has begun for Oliver Stone’s upcoming film W., which will tell the story of George W. Bush’s early years.

Robert Mosbacher’s star is rising. Again.

“I’m trying to wipe the smile off my face, but it just won’t go way,” he told the Dallas Morning News earlier this week, as his staffers worked the phones to move former supporters of Rudy Giuliani to the McCain camp.

The trial of Rep. William J. Jefferson, D-La., begins next month with the nine-term congressman and former chairman of the U.S. congressional caucus on African trade facing a 16-count indictment including fraud, bribery, racketeering and money laundering.

Relationship map of the Bush dynasty.