GOP strategist Karl Rove was caught on tape blasting Michigan Rep. Justin Amash as the "most liberal Republican."
The primary race is more than a year away, but Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander isn't taking any chances -- he's launching a six-figure television ad campaign featuring Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul.
This week, Americans received two reminders of Washington's limited ability to stage-manage either the economy or world events.
Abner Beech sits reading aloud from his newspaper. "Benjamin Wade, a Republican of Ohio, says anyone who quotes the Constitution in the current crisis is a traitor," he says with disbelief. "A traitor! The Constitution!"
Bill and Hillary Clinton praised the Supreme Court's reversal of a key provision in the Defense of Marriage Act Wednesday, calling the 1996 law "discrimination."
Shortly after the Supreme Court struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act, the American Civil Liberties Union announced a new initiative aimed at winning Republican support for gay marriage at the state level.
Massachusetts voters head to the polls Tuesday for a special election between Democrat Rep. Ed Markey and Republican businessman Gabriel Gomez. The winner gets to fill the remainder of Secretary of State John Kerry's Senate term.
Meet Marco Rubio, one of the great tea party success stories of the 2010 elections.
Republican lawmakers renewed their push to scrap the federal estate tax this week, saying the move would create jobs and keep family businesses afloat.
In the waning days of the Massachusetts special Senate election campaign, Republicans are searching for signs of an upset while Democrats are cautioning against complacency.
The American people are just fine with the federal government tracking their phone records. That's the conclusion one might reach by looking at the latest Pew poll, which finds 56 percent support the controversial National Security Agency program.
A more libertarian Republican Party could win in the blue states. That's the argument Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul has been road-testing, most recently in his visit last week to California.
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is scheduled to talk immigration with House conservatives. Rubio is the designated tea party senator in the Gang of Eight; the House is where "comprehensive immigration reform" has gone to die since 2006.
Thought experiment: Rip Van Winkle falls asleep sometime around George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech and wakes up in early March.
Despite my youthful appearance, I am old enough to remember when Jonathan Alter proclaimed the "Obama miracle" was a White House free of scandal.
Just weeks after a major poll found him trailing by 9 points, Mark Sanford fought back and won by the same margin. Now political observers are trying to wring meaning from the disgraced former South Carolina governor's return to Congress.
The Supreme Court has yet to rule on gay marriage, but the verdict among leading Democrats is clear. When asked if they support gay marriage, the party's top elected officials are increasingly saying, "I do."
The latest estimate of the Iraq war's final price tag comes in at $6 trillion. Coincidentally, the national debt has soared by more than $6 trillion since Barack Obama has been president.
Illinois Republican Party chairman Pat Brady faces a vote as early as Saturday that could remove him from office over his support for same-sex marriage.
Many things happened while Mark Sanford was governor of South Carolina, but the one event everyone remembers was really a cover story: the ill-fated hike down the Appalachian Trail that turned out to be an extramarital affair with a woman from Argentina.
