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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...

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...

She was hurrying down the long walk to the church with a bag in her arms and the determined look of someone who needed to get somewhere fast. At first...

By May, there will be no more elephants in the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus. The circus management had originally said it would cease using e...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is often credited with distilling Jeb Bush's main electoral challenge: that he is "low energy." It fits Bush well enough (mo...

DES MOINES — Jeb Bush has a cold. "I'm losing my voice, which is not a great sign, but we'll get through this," he tells the employees gathered in the...

WASHINGTON — Michael Bloomberg's epiphany about the 2016 presidential proceedings is that what is missing is a second bossy, big-government billionair...

TOKYO (AP) — An American university student's arrest in North Korea has rekindled questions about whether a small but steady trickle of U.S. tourists ...

WASHINGTON — The first question to Hillary Clinton from an audience member during Monday night's Democratic town hall in Iowa must have been a blow fr...

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court briefs tend to be the driest of documents, stuffed with citations to precedent and recitations of lower court proceedings. ...

WASHINGTON — Of all Donald Trump's political skills, perhaps the most impressive is his ability to persuade people to support him by suspending their ...

CONTOOCOOK, N.H. — In the year of the angry candidate and the even angrier voter, John Kasich stands out as the self-proclaimed "prince of light and h...

For at least 17 years, the officials of Monroeville, Pa., a 30,000 population Pittsburgh suburb, have recited the Lord’s Prayer before every council m...