Secretary Clinton's safety dance

The way to think about what kind of secretary of state Hillary Clinton will be is to remember what she did after coming to the Senate eight years ago.

While some of her new colleagues feared the former First Lady would be a dilettante who disdained legislating, she surprised them by plunging into the details of the job and gradually earned a reputation as one of the Senate's most substantive members.

She displayed the same style in her ... Full Story »