U.S. Politics

Angry at the GOP establishment, conservative radicals may shut down the government.

He's the top choice to be speaker of the House, but he says he doesn't want the job.

Mandatory bargaining laws have helped increase political participation among teachers.

More than 6,000 small-time offenders, who had received maximum prison sentences, will be released.

Ohio Governor Kasich on Tuesday took a more moderate stance on a major immigration question that is dividing Repulicans.

A dislike of political rancor is a dislike of democracy, and a misunderstanding of the Constitution.

Fiorina's been playing now-you-see-it, now-you-don't with the gender card. Will it work?

Have your say in whether Americans should be fined if they don't turn out to vote.

Republican wannabes are making non-stop attacks on the millennial generation's heroes and beliefs.

With Planned Parenthood under attack, sorting the fact from the fiction about contraception.

Is it prejudice? Electoral math? Or simple demographics?

Jimmy Carter's reputation is being rehabilitated. But he did make one gargantuan mistake.

Some congressional Republicans have said allowing in Syrian refugees would constitute a pipeline for terrorists.

The president you'd least like to have a beer with freed the economy—including breweries.

His attempt to maximize the number of Americans who vote soon fell foul of those crying "electoral fraud!"

The secret documents made public by Wikileaks offer a rare insight into how U.S. foreign policy really works.

As North/South reconciliation proves elusive, these are tough times for lost-cause iconography.

A Massachusetts verdict confirms what an Ohio court ruled last year: The First Amendment always applies.

His campaign wants you to believe he's a rebel and iconoclast. But really he's just a narcissist.

There is an utter failure to inform voters about presidential nomination contests.

Kasich touts gubernatorial, congressional experience.

The 2016 Contenders and their allies released their finances. Who's up—and down.

Congress will take up the "No Child Left Behind" law this month.

In Iowa, an LGBT activist and a conservative leader become unlikely friends.

At a forum on faith, 2016 candidates shied away from mentioning the racially-charged attacks on a church in Charleston.

Republican Senator Joni Ernst and Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand pushed their policy priorities with votes on their amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act.

Who Jeb, Hillary, Lindsey, Marco and the rest want on their side.

He's such a hawk, McCain calls his his "illegitimate son," and he would be the first bachelor president since Cleveland.

The charges include lying to the FBI, relating to an alleged effort to hide $3.5 million in payments he was making to conceal past misconduct.

The 69-year-old Republican is positioning himself as a Washington outsider and moderate.