The coverage of the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy last month emphasized his Massachusetts roots

At the funeral of brother Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Saturday, Jean Kennedy Smith was praised as “a sister everyone in the world would love to have in (her) devotion.”

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy attracted the best and the brightest.

After a long battle with brain cancer, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died Tuesday at age 77.

She was competitive enough to play quarterback in her brothers’ football games. She had political ambitions, but couldn’t go after them because women simply weren’t allowed in big league politics in her prime.

Caroline Kennedy has a lot of things going for her in her attempt to get appointed to the U.S. Senate.

Will she or won’t she? The possibility of a more public profile for Caroline Kennedy, who stepped out of the shadows to play a prominent role in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, is a subject of intense political speculation.

In her fifth year of organizing the annual Women’s Conference, California First Lady Maria Shriver has managed to pull in some big names.

With the Democratic presidential nomination locked up, Sen. Barack Obama has turned to the next item on his agenda, choosing a vice-presidential running mate.

Once again, Dr. Lawrence C. Horowitz is providing counsel to the Kennedy family as it confronts a medical crisis.

Ted Kennedy’s latest trial has cast a spotlight not just on him, but on his partner of 16 years, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, by all accounts a redemptive force in his life - and apparently his choice to take his Senate seat if he is unable to complete his term, which ends in 2012.

As media reports suggested, it was a case of The Terminator taking on Dirty Harry and The Terminator winning.

Last week California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Republican John McCain for president. Sunday, the governor’s wife, Maria Shriver, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama.

In a heartfelt op-ed column in Sunday’s New York Times headlined “A President Like My Father,” Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama for president.

“I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them,” the daughter of president John F. Kennedy wrote. “But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.”

What is Jackie O’s connection to Mr. Vidal?

The Kennedys. The Bushes. The Fords. The Rockefellers. If you define dynasty as families holding power for at least three generations, with living people of influence, these names rule.