The dysfunctional mess that the world witnessed on Monday as the House of Representatives voted down the $700 billion financial bailout bill was Congress not at its worst but, rather, as it is.

Consider what you saw: The president, secretary of …

Presidential debates are among the most watched broadcasts on TV, rarely surpassed by programming other than the Super Bowl and the most hotly contested NFL conference championships. Given their popularity and importance, it is a shame that the debates, which …

In one of many messages urging young people to vote, Jessica Alba recently posed for a print ad in which she is pictured bound and gagged in shiny electrical tape, almost as if she had been kidnapped. “Only you can …

British actor Peter Ustinov once said: “Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” But here in Minnesota, where Republican Sen. Norm Coleman is facing a challenge by comedian Al Franken, Coleman’s campaign has a message for his opponent: …

Watching the House floor on Monday, I was pretty certain that the vote against the $700 billion bailout bill would turn around. In the years when Republicans were in the majority, they were able to get members to think again …

Watching the House floor on Monday, I was pretty certain that the vote against the $700 billion bailout bill would turn around. In the years when Republicans were in the majority, they were able to get members to think again …

Continued thrust and parry between Barack Obama and John McCain has led many to label the 2008 presidential campaign the most negative campaign in the modern era. Negative ads have dominated the airwaves to the point that even Karl Rove …

Suburbs may not have cooked up the mortgage crisis, but they absorbed much of initial damage. Now that Wall Street and the big cities are also taking the fall, suburbanites might feel a bit better — but there’s still lots …

If Sarah Palin goofs, flounders, stumbles or blunders during her debate against Joe Biden on Thursday night, Biden is going to let it slide.

“If she makes a gaffe, he underplays it,” one of the people prepping Biden …

The financial crisis has redefined the presidential race, bringing into stark relief the candidate who can deal with the complexities of the global markets and return the country to prosperity over the next four years.

The race is no …