Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.

If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel.

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016.

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.

Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.