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The Associated Press reported late Thursday that President-elect Barack Obama is expected to officially offer the post of secretary of state to his former

In the closing days of the campaign, the question I’m asked most frequently is: When did Sen. John McCain’s effort begin to unravel? My answer: What date did

As the dust settles following the Pennsylvania primary, the candidates and the media have turned to what comes next. It feels like it was years ago that

Philadelphia city officials are taking matters into their own hands with a foreclosure moratorium, housingwire.com says. Expect to see more of this as cities

Pontiac Emergency Manager Michael Stampfler has asked the state Treasury Dept. to approve plans to void the city’s contract with the police dispatchers union.

The Senate Finance Committee reconvenes this morning to consider ever-more attachments to its $900 billion plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system.

As Sen. Barack Obama has learned in recent days, it’s easy to slip up when taking on economic issues in a political campaign. From Walter F. Mondale

To follow on Ari’s post about Rachel Maddow’s interview with Obama, Maddow asked a question about the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. Obama has consistently argued

No one likes to lose. But losing represents a chance to start again, to build something out of lessons learned and mistakes made. It provides the opportunity for new people to begin to mold the Republican Party in ways that senior leadership had resisted.

Here are more photos (see round one here) from the Code Red rally against health care reform that shook the upper Senate Park this afternoon.

Jeff Wexler of Boca Raton said that on Sunday, a 36-year old Major, the son of two of his constituents, died in the Green Zone as the result of a mortar attack.

Not Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) if he can help it. As Mike flagged yesterday, Waxman, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,

I’ve heard several times that we shouldn’t count out Gov. Sarah Palin as a national political force because she brings out tens of thousands of people to her

Now, the Democrats’ big dog: Jim Webb, the streetfighting Marine from Virginia. He started out by casually remarking that his son was in Anbar in 2006 for the

The Washington Post: Army investigators at Arlington National Cemetery have found more than 100 unmarked graves, scores of grave sites with headstones that are

Stacy McCain reports on a new Zogby poll that, according to John Zogby, puts the president’s approval rating at about 50-50. This has got to scare Democrats

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) In an order filed yesterday in a U.S.