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WASHINGTON — We are gutting government. It is an extreme irony of the Obama presidency that a proud liberal — someone who believes in government’s con...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Even in the scandal-hardened Pennsylvania Capitol, the second “pay-to-play” scandal in as many years was a surprise to many. This ti...

WASHINGTON — In 1981, Tennessee’s 41-year-old governor proposed to President Ronald Reagan a swap: Washington would fully fund Medicaid and the states...

WASHINGTON — Such is the daggers-drawn state of political discourse in Washington these days that President Obama could go to the National Prayer Brea...

WASHINGTON — A presidential budget is more than an expression of policy. It’s also an exercise in political brand management. It aims to project the p...

WASHINGTON — The hawks were swooning. Ashton Carter, President Obama’s nominee to be the next defense secretary, gave the Senate Armed Services Commit...

WASHINGTON — It has become the Rand Paul pattern: A few weeks paddling vigorously in the mainstream, followed by a lapse into authenticity, followed b...

WASHINGTON — Move over Michele Bachmann. Here comes the 2016 Republican presidential field, on the scientifically indisputable but ideologically fraug...

WASHINGTON — Two phrases that Daniel Patrick Moynihan put into America's political lexicon two decades ago are increasingly pertinent. They explain th...

WASHINGTON — Flashback: Galileo is sitting under house arrest pondering the unyielding ignorance of The Church for refusing to consider his heliocentr...

WASHINGTON — The perennially tardy President Obama appeared half an hour early for Monday’s speech outlining his 2016 budget — a rare show of enthusia...

SAN DIEGO — Is Jeb Bush channeling Mitt Romney on immigration? While Bush is reviled by the right for being too soft on the undocumented, and Romney w...

WASHINGTON — Dartmouth is giving drinking a new college try. That is, the drinking problem on its campus — and, by the way, on almost every college ca...

WASHINGTON — The invasion, evidently, has begun. “What’s not acceptable,” Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana explained recently, “is people that want to c...

WASHINGTON — President Obama has declared the economic crisis over — and for the United States, maybe it seems that way. But most other countries, not...

WASHINGTON — The business of baseball and the nation’s business used to be conducted in Washington with similar skill. The Washington Senators were ru...

WASHHINGTON — “Yeah, there’ve been a couple of stumbles,” John Boehner acknowledged Tuesday. The House speaker had spoken with dry understatement. Wha...

WASHINGTON — Are we witnessing the emergence of what might be called a new “sanity caucus” among House Republicans? Earlier this month, 26 of them vot...

WASHINGTON — The young man who answered the phone in the Senate office of Vermont’s Bernie Sanders told the caller, a would-be campaign contributor, t...

HARRISBURG (AP) — In just a few months, state voters could find themselves picking sides in a long-running dispute about who decides which charities s...