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Of the prospective GOP presidential nominees, none has yet developed the credentials to claim rightfully to be next in line.

Obituary Charles R. Larson

Barack Obama may need to put a bit of John Wayne in his foreign policy words right now.

Rick Perry takes on foreign policy and strikes two birds with one stone: President Obama and Sen. Rand Paul.

President Barack Obama asked Congress Tuesday for $3.7 billion in emergency funding to address the influx of children from Central America entering the country illegally, a first step in what the White House described as a broader effort to speed deportations.

For all of the GOP's high expectations for taking control of Congress this fall and the presidency beyond, breaking the minority-vote barrier remains a critical challenge.

It takes something as big as the VA scandal to prompt compromise in the gridlocked Congress; too bad more things aren't considered a national embarrassment.

Most political endorsements touted by candidates typically elicit yawns. Until they garner gasps.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's return has given Obama's critics a stick to beat him with

The president defended a measured view of how U.S. foreign policy should be conducted that we believe most Americans share

Backlog of VA disability claims and the resulting hardships facing veterans are truly outrageous — but not surprising in the least

After endlessly trying to repeal and replace "Obamacare," the GOP has come up empty-handed. The health-care law appears to be gaining more public acceptance. So congressional Republicans are doing what they can to revive another old hobby horse — Benghazi.

It makes more economic sense to fight climate change than to ignore it.

Why is Martin O'Malley running for the democratic presidential nomination when everyone on the planet knows it belongs to Hillary Clinton?

Thanks again to the conservative Republican majority on the Supreme Court, big money will be dominating a fall campaign in which combative and often irresponsible advertising will flood the airwaves in congressional districts and states across the land. All in the name of the First Amendment and free speech.

Calls for octogenarian Supreme Court justice to retire so that a liberal can be appointed in her place are fundamentally wrong

In the early days of the new year, it might be good to take a moment to recognize that however disappointing Obama's policies may be, it could have been a lot worse if any of Obama's key opponents — Republican or Democrat — were sitting in the White House today.

When obstruction reaches historic proportions, Democrats had little choice but to change long-standing rules

GOP's choice to take unpopular position will prove its undoing

Lawmakers in Congress were scrambling late Monday to settle on legislation to end the latest budget showdown even as federal agencies prepared to cut services and furlough hundreds of thousands of federal employees.

The battle between two pharmaceutical companies over an AIDS drug has sparked a debate over whether gay men and lesbians can be removed from juries due to their sexual orientations.

Obama and the lap-dog media want to plunge U.S. into war

Doyle McManus says President Obama's plan to strike at Syria is fraught with challenges, but the other options are even worse

The real out-of-control federal spending is on corporate handouts

The dust-up about McConnell's campaign manager is a classic August recess story.

Death of Pennsylvania's Bill Scranton, who challenged Barry Goldwater in 1964, heralds the end of an era for Republicans