After a hard-fought election, the weeks that follow should include some quiet reflection by the winner. As President Barack Obama takes stock of the damage superstorm Sa...
Republicans just lost eight seats in the House. But if you’d wandered into the House of Representatives last week without reading the election returns, you might have co...
The campaign dust has settled. The echoes of wild charge and countercharge faded. The American people have settled the question of who will lead them for the next four y...
Congressional gridlock is dead. Long live constructive bipartisanship in our nation’s capital.
Well, that’s not reality — yet. But it’s encouraging that President Barack...
WASHINGTON — The first reason to avoid going over the “fiscal cliff” is economic. The $500 billion of tax increases and spending cuts scheduled for early 2013 would prob...
It didn’t escape anyone’s notice that Latino voters helped carry President Barack Obama over the finish line Nov. 6. Suddenly, everybody’s talking about immigration refo...
“Second terms are hard work,” a veteran of the Bill Clinton White House told me Tuesday. “It’s a good idea to get some fresh blood in there.”
But so far, President Obama...
With thousands of people in New York and New Jersey still struggling with damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, the federal government’s flood insurance program is receivin...
David Petraeus is hardly the first leader in government to have an affair. What’s stunning about his admission and resignation Friday as CIA director is that a man who a...
WASHINGTON — Preoccupied by the election, Americans may be under the delusion that most major social and economic changes proceed from the ballot box. Not so.
The latest...
