Politics

If the past four years are any guide, listen closely to what Obama says he plans to do. It’ll probably happen.

The nation spent $2 billion electing its president. But so far no one is willing to spend $50,000 to celebrate the victor.

Originally devised as a solution to the last round of debt-limit negotiations, the fiscal cliff instead sets up another round of hostage taking

There’s a view that politics and national security should be oil and water–that some iron rule of Washington should make the two impossible to mix.

The number have been crunched, and this isn’t just truthiness: According to a new survey by Public Policy Polling, Stephen Colbert is the top choice to replace outgoing senator Jim DeMint in South Carolina.

Who says Washington can’t get anything done?

Paul Ryan’s in a bind. Even as he’s being touted as the great white hope for the GOP in 2016, he’s voluntarily strapped himself to the party’s fast-sinking position on the fiscal cliff as a member of House Speaker John …

It is all but impossible for politicians to be successful if they cannot relate to their constituents and few do so better than Cory Booker.

Of all the operatives working on the presidential election, Mike Leavitt was one of the most important and the most invisible. He was the head of the Republican nominee’s presidential transition team, the man charged with …

Mocking the byzantine campaign finance regulations that govern U.S. elections would have been easy. Instead of pushing for solutions, satirist Stephen Colbert — who won a Peabody award for his efforts — decided to become part …

Who knew? How soon? And just how did they send so many pages of emails? The details continue get more complex — and sordid — in the adultery saga that started with former CIA director General David Petraeus