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MANCHESTER, N.H. — The role of money in politics is neither as crude as Bernie Sanders suggests, nor as benign — at least when it comes to herself —as...

Nineties throwbacks seem to be everywhere these days: low unemployment, a Bush and a Clinton running for office, friends from “Full House” and “X-File...

SAN DIEGO —I hate to burst Chris Christie's bubble, but he's wrong about Marco Rubio having a soft and cushy path to this point. The Florida senator h...

WASHINGTON — When the Watergate tapes were released, some Americans were dismayed at the many "expletives deleted" that Richard Nixon employed in priv...

PALM BEACH, Fla. — As speaking fees go, Hillary Clinton's allegedly scandalous $200,000 per engagement is chump change compared with Donald Trump's $1...

WASHINGTON —The GOP front-runners who did not melt down into an oleaginous puddle of self-pity, delusion and poor sportsmanship — the winners of the c...

Did you know an elephant can smell a human 100 miles away? I can smell a blowout Super Bowl 2686.7 miles away as the Carolina Panthers and the Denver ...

WASHINGTON — Settling unhappily into his Super Bowl seat, Himalayan high behind the end zone, Joe spots an empty seat low and on the 50-yard line. He ...

SAN DIEGO — How do you say "poetic justice" in Spanish? You got me. The nativists who nest in both parties are wrong that Latinos aren't learning Engl...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Wednesday night's televised town hall with Hillary Clinton featured the candidate at her best — and her worst. Clinton and her camp...

WASHINGTON — In 1992, James Carville popularized the adage "It's the economy, stupid." If the economy is ailing, people tend to vote against the party...

WASHINGTON — When Huck Finn asked Tom Sawyer what a Moslem is, Tom said a Moslem is someone who is not a Presbyterian, which is true, but not the whol...

SALAMANCA, N.Y. — For Tucker Hibbert, arguably the biggest star of the AMSOIL Championship Snocross Series, there’s always room for improvement. That ...

WASHINGTON — There is one issue on which the whole ideological range of campaign 2016 seems to agree. "The American Dream is dead," says Donald Trump....

DES MOINES —By the numbers, Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton, by a millimeter, won the Iowa caucuses. Still, the race for the top spot was not the big new...

Donald Trump thinks you’re an idiot. Not just you, though. Pretty much all Americans. He seems to have taken a timeless insight often attributed to H....

DES MOINES — The sobering reality of Barack Obama's presidency has been the difficulty of achieving the change that he promised. The surprising develo...

WASHINGTON —Woodrow Wilson, who enjoyed moralizing about the mundane, called paying taxes a "glorious privilege." In 1865, when there was a Civil War ...

WASHINGTON — If you ask Donald Trump fans what they like about him, there's an excellent chance they'll say, "Because he's not politically correct." B...

DES MOINES — Curt Johansen, 56, is leaning toward Bernie Sanders, but that inclination is irrelevant. Johansen works evenings dispatching mechanics to...