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In electoral politics, the things that most matter are too frequently obscured by the things that most entertain. This isn’t new or novel in American ...

WASHINGTON — The arrival of Sarah Palin brings a special something to the 2016 campaign, like a little LSD added to the punch bowl. Are we watching C-...

CONCORD, N.H. — No one in politics is better than Bill Clinton at diagnosing the mood of the electorate, of putting voters' anxieties and frustration ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The lifting of crippling international sanctions linked to Iran's nuclear program and the flurry of diplomacy that ...

WASHINGTON — China produces an astonishing number of astonishing numbers, including this: In the 20th century, America made automobiles mass-consumpti...

WASHINGTON — So you say you want a daddy for your president? OK, so maybe you didn't say it, but on a subliminal level, you may have felt it, especial...

CONCORD, N.H. — Donald Trump says Ted Cruz is a "nasty guy." The Texan's Senate colleagues agree. Yet here's the surprise from watching Cruz on the ca...

WASHINGTON — The outbreak of hostilities between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz may not be edifying, but it is clarifying. Cruz represents the arrival of t...

Thanks to a seven-month budget stalemate, Pennsylvania state government begins 2016 without a full budget, leaving the short and long term needs of ev...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — By broad consensus, the winner of Thursday night's GOP debate was Donald Trump, followed by Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, with most of ...

WASHINGTON — Iowa and New Hampshire together have just 1.4 percent of the U.S. population, which is actually why it is fine for them to begin the pres...

HARRISBURG (AP) — With a Feb. 16 deadline looming for would-be candidates to gather the voter signatures they need to get on Pennsylvania's primary el...

WASHINGTON — Carly Fiorina has dwindled to near irrelevance in the Republican primary field, as illustrated by her demotion to the undercard debate. B...

The first words out of my mother’s mouth the other morning, “We can’t find Oscar,” were said with maternal concern as the family cat is viewed as anot...

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...

WASHINGTON — Now let us praise laundry lists. Every year at State of the Union time, the president and his staff say the speech will not include them....

WASHINGTON — President Obama's final State of the Union address was part stump speech for the third term he'll never have and part melancholy addendum...

WASHINGTON — What boxer Sonny Liston's manager said of him (Sonny had his good points, the trouble was his bad points) is true of Marco Rubio. His str...

WASHINGTON — Reports of Jeb Bush's political death may be greatly exaggerated. Not only is Bush essentially locked in a statistical tie for second pla...

Some questions are ubiquitous in American culture — “what were you doing when you heard about 9/11” may be the most serious one of modern times. Yet t...