In Arizona, Sen. John McCain trounced former Rep. J.D. Hayworth in the state's Republican primary, a victory that virtually ensures the 2008 GOP presidential nominee will return to the Senate for a fi...

Former Indiana Senator and Vice President Dan Quayle has come to his son Ben Quayle's defense with an e-mail distributed to the junior Quayle's campaign followers. Dan Quayle - United States - L...

Is it deja vu all over again for Democrats? Some neutral observers and senior strategists within the party have begun to believe that the national political environment is not only similar to what the...

More people filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week than at any time since November, providing additional evidence that the economic recovery has stalled and turning up the reelection pre...

When Target gave money in July to a pro-business group in Minnesota, the company thought it was helping its bottom line by backing candidates in its home state who support lower taxes. Instead, the re...

Sarah Palin reveled in the primary upset of Senator Lisa Murkowski, but tensions began well before.

Relations are, at best, awkward between President Obama and George W. Bush.

Arne Duncan’s bus tour from New York to Maine is billed as a way to honor teachers.

Advocacy groups and election officials fear that the high rate of foreclosures will confuse many about their eligibility to vote.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority appeared together with President Obama.

Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, and Terry Goddard, the Democratic challenger, exchanged sharp words on immigration and the state's budget woes in a debate. But it was 13 seconds or so of silence that...

Israeli and Palestinian leaders begin direct peace talks today at the State Department.

A heated forum between Senator Barbara Boxer and her opponent, Carly Fiorina, in what might be their only debate.

Former President Bill Clinton will appear at an event celebrating Blanche Lincoln's first anniversary as chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee.

President Obama committed a slip of the tongue in his Oval Office address on Tuesday.

Democrats and Republicans in gubernatorial races are running on strict anti-immigrant platforms.

She doesn't soft-sell difficulties in the Mideast.

Minnesota gov. says travel may not be directly helping Minnesotans but is "important" nonetheless.

The fates of Boxer, Murray and Feingold may determine whether Dems hold the upper chamber.

The Senate minority leader believes Democrats may not have the votes to repeal Bush tax cuts.

The Obamas' redecoration of the Oval Office is very cautious, neutral, inoffensive, neither one thing nor the other -- the Audacity of Taupe. But I applaud the switch from flowers to a bowl of fruit o...

Pay no attention to the stock market. The real economy is jobs and paychecks, what people buy and what they sell. And the real economy -- even viewed from a worldwide perspective -- is as precarious...

The hostage situation at the Discovery Channel Wednesday, which ended with the death of the offender, shows the extent some people will go to complain about cable programming.

After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it's better to keep goals secret.

The battle against terrorism requires that we understand its ideational roots, not all of which are intrinsically evil or irrational.

by Patrick Appel Brendan Nyhan argues that the media often incorrectly "concludes that candidates won or lost because of their tactical choices." The problem is that any reasonable political tactic ch...

by Conor Friedersdorf A reader writes: My field is Indology, the reconstruction and analysis of ancient and medieval India through the reconstruction and analysis of her texts. The first thing most pe...

by Chris Bodenner Chris Matthews loses that loving feeling: Does he really use a teleprompter in meetings? Ed Morrissey partially defends the president. Barack Obama - Chris...

by Chris Bodenner Gabriel Sherman suggests that Palin's upcoming Des Moines speech is a head fake: For Palin, running for president is partly a kind of profit center. "It’s an industry to write abou...

by Conor Friedersdorf In the "teacher wars" here's where I stand: I think America's teachers should be paid more in money and prestige, that the discretion of principals is a better way to determine r...

The evil part of me is enjoying the schadenfreude of watching Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) totally botch her opening statement in last night's gubernatorial debate:... Jan Brewer - United States -...

Christina Romer, the outgoing chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, calls for more stimulus: "The only surefire ways for policymakers to substantially increase aggregate demand in t...

Corporate Tea Party-backer FreedomWorks made a very big deal last week about having to move its DC headquarters to a different, more secure building because of all of the threats it's received from li...

Would be hate crime ends poorly for the assailant.... Hate crime - Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations - Hate - Crime - Gay Lesbian and Bisexual...

Chuck Norris makes a cameo in a new video produced by the NRA that actually made me chuckle.... Chuck Norris - Video - Sport - Shopping - Mike Huckabee...

New York Daily NewsShock Prediction: GOP to Take House, Maybe Senate in 2010 ElectionU.S. News & World ReportTypically cautious Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia's Center for Politi...

AFL-CIO (blog)Union leader Trumka's bleak view under a Republican-led HouseChristian Science MonitorRichard Trumka, AFL-CIO president, predicts that Democrats will defy conventional wisdom and kee...

FOXNewsO'Donnell plays defense with radio hostPoliticoAs buzz about Christine O'Donnell's insurgent Senate candidacy in Delaware builds, scrutiny about her record is also intensifying, eve...

Central Florida News 13Chiles throws support to Sink in Fla. gov's raceMiamiHerald.comAP TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Lawton "Bud" Chiles is throwing his support to Democrat Alex Sink in the Flo...

Kansas City StarEx-Sen. Hank Brown withdraws support for Dan MaesBoston HeraldBy AP DENVER - Former US Sen. Hank Brown is withdrawing his support for Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Ma...

What if we gave people real choices and real consequences and let them make decisions?

Nine weeks before the midterm elections, Barack Obama finds himself on the wrong side of the polls. Where did all that adoration go -- and is a Republican sweep next?

Glenn Beck spoke to rally people in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. For those looking on as he spoke before the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his dream 47 years ago, it was ea...

Ceremonies commemorating the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina showed everything that has been absent from the fight over plans to build an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero in Manhatt...

David Plouffe has agreed to a seven-figure deal to write a book about last year's presidential election. “The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory” will...

Democrat Al Franken is asking the Minnesota governor and secretary of state to issue an election certificate that would let him take office in the Senate.

The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.

Democratic candidate Al Franken now holds a 49- vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman with almost all of the counting in Minnesota's Senate race done.

With the state Canvassing Board ready to award the last pile of votes in Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, Democrat Al Franken clung to a narrow lead over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. The final c...

AFP - President Barack Obama's Democratic allies will defy glum forecasts of a rout in November elections and keep control of the House and Senate, one of the party's congressional leaders said Thursd...

Time.com - Nine weeks before the midterm elections, Barack Obama finds himself on the wrong side of the polls. Where did all that adoration go -- and is a Republican sweep next?

Time.com - A historic election season has already begun, and our coverage of it will be unrivaled in its scope, depth and insight...

The Upshot - Marco Rubio will get some serious help this fall in his bid to win Florida's open Senate seat: The National Republican Senatorial Committee announced this week that it plans to spend $2.5...

AP - Illinois' prison chief, who became a political liability to Gov. Pat Quinn during an election year because of a secret prisoner release program he oversaw, is stepping down, the governor said Thu...

Missourian is only Democratic in two top categories.

The deal, priced like Washington Post's Newsweek sale, is meant to foster Sun Myung Moon's legacy.

The party’s problem is that ‘Boehner ain’t Newt.’...

Back in Washington, the former NASA administration may soon be out of intensive care.

Ted Kennedy's biographer offers new details about a fateful night.

Mitchell announces second set of peace talks to take place September 14-15 in the Middle East.

Mideast talks, rig explosion top Gibbs' session with reporters. Details here.

Coast Guard says blast occurred west of BP spill site. Developing...

Clinton, Netanyahu and Abbas call for progress, emphasize security needs in remarks at outset of direct negotiations Thursday. Get highlights here.

Justice sues Sherrif Joe Arpaio for allegedly stonewalling discrimination probe.

Last spring, according to a Pew Research Center poll, eighty-four per cent of Pakistanis were dissatisfied with the way things were going in their country. Inflation, terrorist bombings, and American...

On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth annual spring gala of American Ballet Theatre, a...

There was a day, last week, when a lot of people in California almost got married. A federal judge, Vaughn Walker, had set 5 P.M. on Wednesday, August 18th, as the moment when a stay on his decision d...

A couple of weeks before the last election, the Republican nominees for President and Vice-President granted a joint interview to Brian Williams, of NBC. “Governor,” he asked, turning to t...

8220;This is just one of those days when you want to throw up your hands and say, ‘What in the world are we doing?’ ” Senator Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Democrat, said. “I...

Dear Imam Feisal,...

Washington—By insisting Tuesday evening that "it's time to turn the page," President Obama was talking about more than the Iraq War, and doing much more than reviving one of his most e...

In early February, the top financial officials of seven major industrialized countries gathered in Canada to mull the state of the world economy. To grease their interactions, the Canadians had create...

Washington—President Obama's address to the nation on Iraq this week underscores the agony of his presidency, and its core political problem. Seen from the inside, the administration is an aston...

Almost no one who attended Saturday’s “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall seems able to cogently explain what, exactly, took place. Was it a thinly disguised political rally...

“One of the best things that has happened for Charlie Rangel is that his biggest enemy is the New York Post.”...

The NYT looks at wages in the recovery...

The papers on Obama’s Iraq address...

What Social Security means to real people...

Poll sets tongues wagging, knees shaking...

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has conceded her primary battle with challenger Joe Miller.  But what if -- for argument's sake -- the remaining votes all went to Murkowski?  Would she win, even if she c...

The recession and how to turn around the state's 12.3 percent jobless rate dominated the debate...

Joe Miller, a conservative with Tea Party-backing, defeated Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski in a close primary election. It was a stunning upset for a two-term senator whose family has been prominent in...

The former prime minister of the United Kingdom's memoir, My Life: A Political Journey, is on sale in the U.S. Blair spoke to Steve Inskeep about Iraq, globalization and his political career.

What do Wikipedia and Craigslist have in common with the Tea Party movement? They succeed by being decentralized, says Rod Beckstrom, co-author of the management book The Starfish and the Spider.

THE TOP OF PENCE'S PRIORITY LIST.... We don't know if or when congressional Republicans will release an actual policy agenda. For that matter, we don't know just how successful Republicans will be in...

NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME.... We talked earlier Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's (R) remarkable opening statement in a gubernatorial debate last night, in which the far-right incumbent appeared deeply confused...

VOTE FIRST, ANSWER QUESTIONS LATER.... The most common phenomenon in American politics is Republican candidates promising to cut spending. As a matter of economics, it's a dubious idea -- when an econ...

THURSDAY'S CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP.... Today's installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn't generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers. * As was rumored yesterda...

BREWER'S PAINFULLY LONG PAUSES.... I've seen politicians freeze on the air when confronted with a tough question for which they're unprepared, but going blank during a debate's opening statement? This...

Tomorrow's elections today, because it's never too early.

If Iran needed reassurance that their proxy warfare strategy is working ...

The "Golden Age" of pluralistic Muslim rule, alluded to by Rauf's proposed mosque title, has been thoroughly debunked by historians.

The Violence Against Women Act includes a definition of domestic violence that is so wide you could drive a Mack truck through it.

If the "corrected" story is true, wouldn’t we be having these kinds of terror alerts every day?

You'll still find our content at the same place, but you'll need to change your RSS feed to http://factcheck.org/feed/rss/...

The first lady, her mother and her children did stay in Europe for a private vacation after the president completed an overseas trip on official business. However, no taxpayer money was used for the f...

Facts vs. Obama...

Rep. Boehner and Rush Limbaugh got this wrong. The Realtors and home builders associations say there's no such requirement in the bill, as do we.

More ads claim that Congress is pushing a Canadian-style health care bill.

New Orleans TV station WDSU is reporting on a new mishap off the Louisiana coast involving a shallow water rig. One person is missing after a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, about 80 miles south...

**Written by Doug Powers Every now and then, a politician goofs and reveals more than he or she intended, providing a window into the true motives or beliefs. Michigan’s John Dingell claiming th...

In Invasion, published eight years ago, I pointed out that the Bush administration’s lame immigration enforcement measures included orange rubber cones and useless “No Entry” signs p...

Right on: (h/t Sissy Willis via F.A.M.) And right on again, from Jerome Hudson via Human Events: Like most Americans, I’ve had enough with this administration’s policies. I was fed up and...

Far Left Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon championed a federal individual health care mandate, wrote it into his own legislation, and voted it into law. Now, he’s not so sure he wants to impose...

Details are still emerging, but here's some of what is being reported about the explosion of an offshore platform earlier today 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay, Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico: The...

It was the first debate of the Arizona governor's race, and likely the last, as there's no way incumbent Republican Gov. Jan Brewer chances another disaster like this one. It started out embarrassing...

At 11 AM EDT Hurricane Earl's track is mostly unchanged from yesterday evening. The storm has intensified slightly and is now a strong cat 4 with winds in excess of 140 mph and higher gusts. Condition...

I'm not trying to be naturally contrarian, here -- really. But in a back-and-forth argument with Digby over a review of Markos' new book, the American Prospect reviewer dropped this nugget of wisdom:...

The FRM Ponzi scheme may have been the first significant sign of trouble for former Attorney General Kelly Ayotte in the New Hampshire Senate race. Which means that two weeks before the primary, with...

One fascinating subplot of the Middle East peace talks in Washington this week is the role of Egyptian president/dictator Hosni Mubarak. The 82-year old Mubarak, who has long governed Egypt with an ir...

TIME's Katy Steinmetz files this report: Like a deserted wife who, years after the fact, still insists her husband is due home any day, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka seems a bit out of touch. Makin...

Despite what you may have heard from Republican critics of health care reform, the new law may actually be good for people who work for small businesses. I've written about this previously, but the vi...

"The American combat mission in Iraq has ended," President Obama told the nation Tuesday night, but the 50,000 U.S. troops still on the ground there will continue to pocket combat pay of up to $680 a...

Reuters --Direct Israeli-Palestinian talks begin today at the State Department. --Ethan Bronner writes Bibi has the power to deal. --Ben Smith thinks the whole affair has a fly-by-the-seat-of-their p...

Later this month an FDA advisory committee is scheduled to consider whether the agency should require a prescription for Robitussin, NyQuil, and other medications containing dextromethorphan (DXM...

According to preliminary news reports a non-producing oil platform run by Mariner Energy is burning about 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana in about 2500 feet of water. Platform workers are in t...

The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities, requiring businesses to provide the disabled "equal access" and to make "reasonable accommodatio...

How significant is the risk that the U.S. will eventually hit a debt crisis? Earlier this week, I noted a new paper by Arnold Kling guessing that it’s at least somewhat likely that the U.S. will...

From today's USA Today: A new report on the condition of the USA's state highways finds that they are in the best shape they have been in nearly 20 years. The annual study by the Reason Founda...

The man he fired and called a liar is fighting back -- and he's got e-mails...

The rising star governor of Arizona gives a painfully awful debate performance...

The former mayor's name-driven consulting firm declines along with Giuliani's status as a national figure...

He's constructing a world that allows his fans to avoid the pitfalls of introspection and critical thought...

A Southern Republican with designs on challenging Barack Obama in 2012 offers a phony version of history...

The latest round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks started off like similar endeavors in the past, but the White House hopes that this time, the outcome will be different. FULL STORY | LEADERS CALL F...

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan Thursday to consult with political and military officials.

If this week's Mideast peace talks brokered by the Obama administration go well, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is offering to host a second round of talks later this month in his country, according...

It's back-to-school time, which means some in the media have gone back to asking: "What's wrong with our schools? And how can we fix it?"...

There are just times, when you are president of the United States, that formally speaking to the American people is part of the job.



 President Obama and leaders from Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority spoke Wednesday at the White House. (PHOTO CREDIT: Getty Images)
 (CNN) - The latest round of peace talks...

(CNN) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to meet again on September 14 and 15, and roughly every two weeks thereafter, according to former Sen. George Mitchell, President Barack Obama's spe...

A frustrated Brewer wouldn't answer reporter's questions about her beheading statement. (CNN) - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer sparred with her Democratic opponent in an at-times contentious debate...

A new forecast predicts Republicans will pick up 47 House seats. Washington (CNN) – It's the biggest guessing game in this town: Will the Republicans pick up enough House seats in November's mid...

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he won't decide about a presidential run until after the midterm elections. Washington (CNN) - Haley Barbour, the chairman of the Republican Governors Associat...

Today's column is my last for The Washington Post. And the first thing I want to say is thank you. Thank you to all you readers, e-mailers, commenters, questioners, Facebook friends and Twitterers for...

It says a lot about this presidency that there is so much else going on that the public has almost forgotten that our troops are still fighting two wars. And yet, there is big trouble on both fronts.

Colum Lynch writes in The Washington Post: "The United Nations' top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try...

Jon Stewart shows a clip of Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer criticizing Obama for his restrained response to the Iranian crackdown. Stewart's response: "You can't believe Obama puts our natio...

What a difference two years makes. 2008: 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPoPw9zgvQ...

A pair of polls today suggest that incumbent Ohio Democratic Governor Ted Strickland finds himself in deep trouble. This morning, Rasmussen Reports released a survey finding former Republican Congress...

According to the latest Public Policy Polling (D) poll (8/27-8/29, 724 LV, MOE +/- 3.6%), Richard Burr leads Elaine Marshall by a narrow 43 percent to 38 percent margin. This is especially troubling n...

In one of the most watched Senate races this year, Republican Rob Portman continues to lead Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher in the race for retiring Republican Sen. George Voinovich's seat, according to a ne...

The latest Rasmussen Reports poll (8/29/10, 500 LVs, MOE +/- 4.5%) shows Governor Joe Manchin's lead over businessman and two-time Senate candidate John Raese down to single digits. The Governor, who...