Richard Wolffe

After losing Ohio and Texas, his camp hints that they'll target the Clintons more harshly

Clinton connected—but only in closing. Inside Obama's night.

In Texas, Barack Obama rides the wave of 10 straight victories and prepares for a two-pronged attack on Hillary Clinton.

She's the one who keeps him real, the one who makes sure running for leader of the free world doesn't go to his head. Michelle's story.

Michelle on the 'pluses and minuses' of her potential role as First Lady.

Obama and Clinton each claim they can bring about change. But candidates have been promising that forever, so why should voters buy in this time? A reality check.

Some prominent Republicans have caught Obama fever.

Family therapists might want to study the two Democratic get-togethers over the last week. Both were nominally about race in America, and  both involved the same three candidates.

Confusion reigns in Nevada--among voters and campaigns alike.

The Clintons' line about Obama is that he's all talk and little action—star of 'the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen,' said Bill. So what's the reality?

Obama absorbs the body blow of New Hampshire and pledges to move forward.

The speech lit a fire. Meet Obama's editor.

An icon of hope, he won't 'kneecap' his foes. But Obama knows what it takes, and how to win.

Obama's afterglow. A NEWSWEEK exclusive interview.

By winning Iowa, the upstart and historic candidate proved the naysayers wrong.

Days before the caucuses, the candidates try to break through.

On the campaign trail, the candidates use the Bhutto news to bolster their own positions.

A tougher-talking Obama is taking aim at Edwards in the Iowa home stretch

Hillary Clinton's ritual end-of-day conference call with senior advisers on Dec. 11 was anything but a normal strategy session. Clinton's aides had just learned of the next day's New York Daily News story (headline: HONEY, I'LL FIX THE CAMPAIGN), about Bill Clinton yelling at his wife's team and the prospect of a campaign staff shake-up. "I want to be really clear about one thing," Clinton said, chuckling, according to a person on the call. "We're not having a shake-up.

The TV star's value to Obama's campaign may be more than just her ability to pull in the crowds.

The new Iran intel report disrupts Clinton's new strategy.

Democratic voters, stung by crushing defeats in 2000 and 2004, may just want a candidate who can win. How Obama and Clinton are each making the case.

He's still a little uneasy pursuing politics as a game, played to win. But Obama is suiting up now.

John Edwards is running out of time.

Is John Edwards in trouble in Iowa? Peg Dunbar thinks so. She signed up as a county chair for Edwards in the northeastern town of Waverly earlier this year, after backing the former senator's campaign in 2004.

During a stop in Tennessee last year, Barack Obama met with a group of black ministers. Among the topics they discussed: gay marriage, which Obama opposes, like most of his audience that day.

The slogan takes on a new meaning on the campaign trail.

It's one thing to believe you have the presidential nomination in the bag several months before the first votes are cast. But what does it say about a campaign when you're ready to celebrate several weeks before a debate?That's what happened today on the Clinton campaign's Website.

A man with a reputation for secrecy and seclusion, Vice President Dick Cheney has spent the past few months out in public. He campaigned in the midterm elections, traveled to Saudi Arabia to talk security and eulogized former president Gerald Ford.

When Barack Obama chose not to land a big punch at the last TV debate for the Democratic candidates, many pundits concluded that the Illinois senator lacked the stomach for the fight.