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Well, if the Republican establishment didn’t have enough problems already with likely presidential nominee John McCain, enter a 40-year-old blond lobbyist named

Cherilyn Eagar, a long-shot candidate for U.S. Senate in Utah, tries to grab onto them with an announcement that she’ll have a historic meeting with the former

When President Obama traveled to Denmark to try to seal the deal to host the 2016 Olympics in Chicago, his trip was decried by conservatives and his failure to

IOWA CITY — At a table filled with pamphlets, two younger demonstrators explained their reasons for wanting to occupy an Iowa City park to a middle-aged man. Snippets of the conversation mixed with another demonstrator’s guitar playing and singing. “The bailout wasn’t just one party or the other … it was both

CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta gave an odd answer when asked about future long-term detentions by Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.). He didn’t really go so far

Natural Resources Defense Council International Climate Policy Director Jake Schmidt told reporters on a conference call today that the United States needs to

In the wake of Christine O’Donnell’s victory in the Delaware GOP primary, Richard Pildes takes up two questions: Do political primaries fuel polarization and

DeParle isn’t quite a household name, but as director of the White House Office of Health Reform, she’s been Obama’s point person on health care reform all

MUSKEGON, Mich. -- Here’s some late-breaking video of a press conference Sen. John McCain gave today under a tree in Grand Haven, Mich., on the bank of the

As expected, CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta says that he doesn’t think anyone in CIA should be prosecuted for torturing detainees since they were told by

In what The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim calls a big boost for climate change, Sens. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) and John McCain (D-Ariz.) today endorsed the

Previous GOP campaigns succeeded by stoking people’s “artificial differences,” as Jesse Jackson once put it. That old okey-doke can’t survive this much time or this much crisis.

The income gap -- the disparity in earnings between the wealthiest and poorest Americans -- increased to the highest recorded level in 2009, according to the

<p>The Clinton campaign is very excited about a speech the New York senator is giving Friday in Philadelphia. She is going to unveil

Can’t figure out why an increasing number of Americans doubt the threat of climate change? Well, check out where they’re getting their information. From John

In the post-9/11 era the GOP defined itself on national security and foreign policy.

Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl accused the House of trying to take credit for border security after the chamber passed an identical version of the

Confirmation hearings covered Supreme Court nominee’s thoughts on foreign and international law.

The McCain campaign is making a play for the all-important K-5 demographic with a new picture book biography of the presumed GOP nominee, written by none other

The count was 61 to 37, with three GOP senators -- Arlen Specter (Pa.), Olympia Snowe (Me.) and Susan Collins (Me.) -- joining every Democrat in supporting the

Here’s something to keep in mind as congressional lawmakers wail about yesterday’s news that, at the current rate of spending, Medicare’s hospital fund won’t be

The Republican National Committee passes along a local news write-up of an anti-stimulus protest in Denver that brought together hundreds of party operatives,