A Republican lawmaker who has angered GOP congressional leaders in recent weeks could lose his grip on power and should be ...

Republicans remain convinced that the Obama administration deliberately avoided labeling the attacks in Benghazi an act of terrorism. But that alleged “cover-up” has nothing on a recent ...

The second Republican debate, held at the Reagan Library, featured seven candidates chasing an absentee frontrunner. All the chatter ahead of time was about which of them would come out strongest ...

Eleanor Clift, moderator, is a contributing editor for *Newsweek* Magazine. She reports on the White House, presidential politics, and a variety of national issues. Her column, "Capitol Letter," is ...

Louis XIV of France, the absolute monarch known as the Sun King, said, possibly apocryphally, “L’État, c’est moi,” literally, “The State, it is me,” or more commonly, “I am The State.” America’s ...

It is time for us contrarians to state our case. The contrarian theory is predicated upon the reality that when most people predict something dealing with money — anything from interest rates to the ...

SIOUX CITY | Eleanor Clift, a long-time political reporter and current Washington correspondent for the Daily Beast, is fascinated by the obsession with Donald Trump that has put him at the forefront ...

American politics have become so tribal that voting against the other side is more important than assessing the candidate on your side. Hate is the motivator, and people turn a blind eye on anything ...

Suddenly we have a race in New Hampshire. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley had already closed the gap with Donald Trump to single digits when Chris Christie announced he was suspending his ...

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has not said much about Ukraine, at least not recently. He is probably trying to figure out how to side with the hard right in his party that loves Vladimir ...