With their eyes on winning control of the U.S. Senate in November, Republicans will be looking Tuesday to the primary for Nebraska's open seat, where the yet-to-be-decided Republican candidate is already favored over the former senator expected to win the Democratic nod.
When it comes to cutting deficits, don't play small ball.
CNN's Campbell Brown sounds off on Sen. Barack Obama's unprecedented amount of campaign money.
The cost of health insurance continued its 20-year reign as the number-one issue worrying small-business owners, according to the latest edition of the Small-Business Problems and Priorities survey conducted by the National Federation of Independent Businesses, released on Monday.
Sen. John McCain was booed and heckled as he delivered the commencement address at The New School on Friday in New York.
How did Howard Dean, whose presidential campaign got derailed by endless replays of a barbaric yawp, go from public laughingstock to party leader?
When asked during his 1992 campaign why he had not responded to his country's draft call and served in the Vietnam War, candidate Bill Clinton ducked, dodged and creatively changed the subject.
A proposed national intelligence chief must have the power to hire, fire and set budgets, a 9/11 commissioner testified Tuesday, warning that the Pentagon will likely oppose at least part of that plan.
This week, in "The Inside Edge," the question of redefining U.S. goals in Iraq -- perhaps by both President Bush and by John Kerry -- plus the shifting ground of election-year debate on economic issues.
How much of a warning did Bill Clinton give incoming President George W. Bush that Osama bin Laden posed a grave danger?
Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism coordinator, recently appeared on "60 Minutes," released his new book "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War On Terror," testified publicly before the 9/11 Commission, hit the top of the Bush-Cheney enemy list, and caused a major political stir.
Condoleezza Rice's public testimony today before the 9/11 commission rises to a level of political theater not seen since ... well, since Richard Clarke drew gavel-to-gavel TV coverage two weeks ago. Just as they did when Clarke testified March 24, both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are lying relatively low today.
Former Defense Secretary William Cohen on Tuesday defended President Clinton's use of the military to protect national security interests, returning to a sharp GOP-led criticism of Clinton at a time when he was embroiled in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Tuesday's testimony before the 9/11 commission revealed a previously unknown opportunity in 1999 to kill Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
The top military and diplomatic leaders of the Clinton and Bush administrations were grilled Tuesday by members of the commission investigating the government's antiterror policies before the attacks of September 11, 2001 brought unprecedented destruction and death to the American homeland.
"What did you do during the war, daddy?"
The success of recent Million pick-a-word political marches has been judged by crowd turnout. The Billion Byte March, which kicked off on Oct. 9, however, will have no actual marchers, no polemical...
Don't even think about it. Don't even think about Monica Lewinsky or Kathleen Willey. There are schools to wire, the IRS to reform, the government to reorganize. And there's the earth to televise. ...
This is not good. Not one person in the entire country buys my story about the Buddhist monks. There's an independent counsel cruising my way, and I look like a dufus hiding behind legalisms even m...
No question about it. We must get the federal budget deficit under control. Talk about government waste. Some 14% of all federal spending is thrown away each year paying the $203 billion in interes...
Money Magazine: COMING UP updated: Mon Aug 01 1994 00:01:00
Sen. Bob Kerrey's entitlements and tax reform commission will issue its preliminary report on Aug. 8. It's likely to suggest possible cuts in Social Security and Medicare. The commission, whose fin...
Money Magazine: CAMPAIGN '92 Health careupdated: Wed Apr 01 1992 00:01:00
With more than 36 million Americans lacking health insurance and millions more struggling to pay medical bills that rose 45% on average over the past five years, health-care reform has become a maj...
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, where the February 18 primary is fast approaching, there is only one political issue: the sputtering U.S. economy. Now that Mario Cuomo has made his to-be-or-not-to-be decision, D...
OKAY, let's admit it up front: No incumbent President enjoying the kind of approval ratings that George Bush is getting a year before an election has ever been defeated. But saying something is imp...
Who are those guys? We allude to the six (as of 5 P.M., September 24) shadowy characters competing for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, collectively the subject of the following pop ...
We've almost reached the point where anyone will do. Nobody's wanting to run against you-know-who!
Q: What's the quickest way to get rid of Saddam Hussein? A: Give him the Democratic presidential nomination. The Washington joke highlights the Democrats' dilemma: Hardly anyone of any political st...