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If Vice President Al Gore has counted on anything in this tumultuous political season, it is that the strong economy will give him the upper hand in the general election [...]

BY some measures, Americans are growing increasingly profligate, choosing to spend everything they have, and more, on big-screen televisions, restaurant meals and vacations. How many will spend it all by [...]

Republicans in the House today introduced legislation that would allow most Social Security recipients to earn as much money as they want without giving up any of their retirement benefit. [...]

House Republicans unveiled their own proposal today to give a tax cut to married couples, stepping up pressure on President Clinton and Democrats to agree to an election-year compromise on [...]

IT is a measure of how much President Bush and the nation have riding on his showdown with Saddam Hussein that any recovery in the lackluster and weakening economy hinges [...]

CORPORATE executives are reluctant to build new factories. Small business owners are hesitating to hire more workers. Investors are unwilling to put more money in stocks. In ways large and [...]

FINANCE ministers and central bankers from around the world streamed into Washington late last week for the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. They were [...]

TURF battles. Clashing cultures. Nervous employees. Stressed out and overworked managers. Disappointed stakeholders. They are familiar to anyone who has been through a corporate merger. And they seem certain to [...]

IT was more of a dip than a downturn. The recession that started a year ago this month appears to have played itself out without having inflicted much serious damage, [...]

When it comes to engineering an economic recovery, the question now is whether policy makers have done too much, too little or just enough. Even before it became clear after [...]

An influential member of the Federal Reserve said today that it should not shy away from continuing to ease monetary policy aggressively just because its benchmark interest rate is beginning [...]

DON'T count on going back to the days when the Nasdaq was a one-way bet, Alan Greenspan was omniscient and all-powerful, Bill Gates could be portrayed as the worst predator [...]

WHEN President Bush signed into law the tax cut he had championed since the start of the race for the White House a year and a half ago, it marked [...]

PRESIDENT-ELECT GEORGE W. BUSH spent much of last week building support for his tax-cut plan, meeting here with like-minded business executives and asserting that a dose of fiscal stimulus would [...]

OXON HILL, Md. -- Mitt Romney came to the conservatives' yearly retreat here on Friday and urged them to ''make sure that we learn from my mistakes, and from our [...]

Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, would seem to be just the kind of promising politician his party needs at this stage: a telegenic, 35-year-old former Air Force pilot, close [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama will go to Capitol Hill this week to try to salvage a big deficit-reduction deal, battling not only Republican resistance but also complaints from Democrats that [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Rand Paul's intention was to highlight his misgivings about how drones are used. He ended up enmeshing his fellow Republicans in a broader debate over national security [...]

WASHINGTON -- In picking Sylvia Mathews Burwell to be his budget director, President Obama on Monday again enlisted a Clinton-era veteran for his economic team as it deals with fiscal [...]

WASHINGTON -- Conservative governors are signing on to provisions of what they once derisively dismissed as Obamacare. Prominent Senate Republicans are taking positions on immigration that would have gotten the [...]

It may be hard to believe, given the intense partisan strafing already ignited by the automatic government spending cuts that begin on Friday, but this year's budget wars have yet [...]

WASHINGTON -- Even as President Obama lashes out at Republicans over the automatic spending cuts that take effect next week, he is simultaneously sending them a strikingly different message: he [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's decision to bring home more than half of the American troops in Afghanistan over the next year is setting off intensified debate over an issue with [...]

WASHINGTON -- Thirty-two years after President Ronald Reagan proclaimed that ''government is the problem'' and 17 years after President Bill Clinton offered a surrender of sorts on that issue by [...]

The newfound urgency among Republicans to improve their standing among Hispanic voters is not the only reason that an immigration policy overhaul may have a better chance this year than [...]

WASHINGTON -- Republican governors are moving aggressively to cut personal and corporate income taxes, including proposals that would increase reliance on state sales taxes, setting up ambitious experiments in tax [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama made addressing climate change the most prominent policy vow of his second Inaugural Address, setting in motion what Democrats say will be a deliberately paced but [...]

WASHINGTON -- He did not utter the words, but President Obama suffused his second Inaugural Address with the spirit of a favorite phrase: the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s [...]

In a high-stakes negotiation, the most important moves often come not in the end game but at the very start, when one side or the other prevails in defining what [...]

WASHINGTON -- The complex and fraught politics of wealth and class, undercurrents all along in the race between President Obama and Mitt Romney, are surfacing in increasingly visible ways in [...]

The current election is producing very few goose bumps, except perhaps among those who get all tingly when they view billionaire-financed attack ads. The incumbent, who drew adoring throngs last [...]

There is no good time for a presidential candidate to face what Mitt Romney faced last week, when The Washington Post reported that he had tormented a fellow student while [...]

Mitt Romney effectively wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination. Newt Gingrich said he would drop out. President Obama stumped through key swing states. But there's a case to be made [...]

President Obama's campaign has left no doubt about how it intends to run against Mitt Romney, portraying him as a bazillionaire elitist and conviction-free flip-flopper who has allied himself with [...]

WASHINGTON -- Let's say you're moving steadily toward wrapping up the Republican presidential nomination and you allow yourself to begin thinking ahead to the question of a running mate. Your [...]

When it comes to inspiring Tea Party support, Mitt Romney often seems more burdened by his record than helped by it. There is his Massachusetts health care plan, complete with [...]

Rick Santorum creates a stir by speaking out against prenatal testing. Virginia's governor and legislature get caught up in an emotional debate over requiring women seeking abortions to undergo an [...]

2:55 p.m. Updated ''One of the things about being president,'' President Obama said the other day in an interview with NBC News, ''is that you get better as time goes [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Old Guard of the Republican Party has suddenly surfaced with some acid criticism of Newt Gingrich and warnings that he would be crushed in November, seeking to [...]

WASHINGTON -- Both are Harvard-educated millionaires. Both have been criticized as elitist and technocratic. Both have struggled to handle the populist anger coursing through politics. In an election climate largely [...]

To those who bemoan the lack of better choices in presidential elections, third-party fantasies come easily at this stage in a campaign. End hyper-partisanship and Washington dysfunction: Vote Bloomberg-Petraeus in [...]

A year out from Election Day: an eon in political time, sufficient to alter circumstances substantially for or against either party. But Friday's tepid jobs report brings a fresh reminder [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED He'll have hundreds of millions of dollars, the bully pulpit, Air Force One and high-profile supporters from Warren Buffett to Lady Gaga behind him. But President Obama's chances [...]