WASHINGTON — Dipping back into conversation in the capital on a brief break from the campaign trail, I heard members of Congress, lobbyists and political operatives stew...
NEW YORK — If you haven't been humming tunes from "Les Miserables," you haven't seen "Inside Job," the new documentary about how our economic crisis evolved.
The most fo...
What do Americans for Prosperity and MoveOn.org Civic Action have in common? Not political leanings, that's for sure. AFP is hard right, MoveOn is hard left.
Both are re...
CLEVELAND — There is a pattern to the political life of Rob Portman, as he reflected over dinner the other night. It is one that has brought him to the verge of victory ...
WASHINGTON — Promoting his new book, Jimmy Carter, whose version of Christianity allows ample scope for what some Christians consider the sin of pride, has been doing so...
When pols and tea partiers say they want to "take our country back," do they mean take it back from the people running the government, or do they really mean "take it ba...
Last week, I attended a glitzy ceremony in New York City in which Bill Clinton awarded one of five Global Citizen Awards to Suraya Pakzad, who runs shelters for abused A...
The fire that was always part of his politics is most visible now when he talks about the Republican Party. 'This is not the party we knew.'
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — J...
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that sorely tests the principle, articulated by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. nearly a century ago, that "we sh...
Fixing Social Security's approaching insolvency is, Hensarling says, "child's play" compared to dealing with Medicare and Medicaid, the primary drivers of the govern...
