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On June 12, in more than two dozen cities and towns across the United States, thousands of educators took to the streets to oppose the Republican-led drive to ban the [...]

IF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY descends into civil war over the next two years, a luncheon in October of this year will count as its Fort Sumter. On the second day [...]

In the complex history of U.S. federalism, states often have played a national leadership role when divided government prevails in Washington and one party holds a commanding majority in the [...]

House Republicans have moved forward on the immigration fight by passing additional border security measures on September 21, 2006, while the Senate has started debating on erecting a 700-mile fence along the US-Mexican border. The upcoming Senate closure motion to shut off the debate on the fence measure might end with few Republicans joining most Democrats in blocking the House legislation.

US Democrats in 2006 are as close to victory as they have been in a dozen years to regaining control of Congress, especially in the House. A region-by-region look at the campaigns for the House and Senate is presented, including an analysis of the situation in every competitive race three months before Election Day.

The most important vote of 2005 occurred in November 2004 when Americans went to the polls and handed congressional Republicans slightly bigger majorities in both the House and the Senate, while increasing the Senate majority to 55. GOP leaders were able to thwart the Democrats on certain prominent pieces of the Republican agenda and bills restricting class action lawsuits, overhauling bankruptcy rules, granting legal liability to gun makers and rewriting federal energy policy, which were blocked by Senate Democrats in the past few years, became law in 2005.

Democrats need to do a lot more than pointing out failures of the Republicans to convince the Americans what the alternative is in national security, energy independence, fiscal responsibility and a strong environmental protection program, if they have to win the 2006 elections. A majority of Americans view Democrats as lacking in their ideas or a positive, alternative agenda and the GOP strategists believe that the 2006 outcome will be heavily influenced by the personal popularity of the candidates and by the organizations and treasuries they build.

The overhauling of the federal tax policy may help the GOP candidates in the 2006 elections. The proposal for the restructuring of the federal tax law is reported.

There is growing divisions within the Republican ranks about who truly speaks for the party, whether it is conservatives or moderates or pragmatic leaders, after almost ten years of taking the reins of the House. The party's most uncomfortable challenge will be dealing with the sense that it has already compromised the goals it set out for itself a decade ago.

The election gave Republicans a larger Senate majority than all but the most confident among them had expected, and added to the ranks of their governorships when they were expected [...]

Republican leaders are planning to use an omnibus package in the fall of 2004 to push the fiscal 2005 spending measures through Congress, but are wary about the Democratic efforts to force politically awkward votes. The Senate GOP leaders are planning to put together all the bills that have passed the House by July 23, 2004 when the summer recess starts, and advance them as an omnibus measure in September 2004.

Byline: George E. Condon Jr. Amid all the furor in Washington about the looming government shutdown, almost no attention has been paid to the international consequences of a failure to [...]

Byline: Alex Roarty Primaries sometimes amount to healthy competition. Sometimes, they're bitter internecine conflicts. But always, they are risky. This year, that risk is being borne by the Republican Party [...]

Byline: George E. Condon Jr. Did you hear the one about the president who gave a speech about the economy? And then gave another one? And planned to give even [...]

What are these Republicans drinking? In 2011, Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia tried to privatize his state's Soviet-style liquor stores and was handed a stinging legislative defeat. In 2013, another [...]

Byline: Alex Roarty Senate Republicans won't lack bull's-eyes next year. They can target seven Democratic seats in red states, two of which will be open races--West Virginia and, if Sen. [...]

Byline: Charlie Cook Correction: An earlier version of this column misstated the percentage of the black vote won by congressional Democrats in 2012. They won was 83 percent. It was [...]

Representative Paul Ryan and Senator Marco Rubio addressed the Jack Kemp Foundation, each making important points about the Republican party's future. Ryan acknowledged that the party had too often appeared [...]

Byline: Beth Reinhard NORTH CHESTERFIELD, Va.--President Obama strode into Firehouse No. 9 with rolled-up shirtsleeves and no tie. He shook the hand of each and every one of the 17 [...]

Bring forth a pragmatic Republican: he (or she) might win CAN Barack Obama be beaten in next year's presidential election? That is the question that a squadron of nervous Republicans [...]

Vacancies have accumulated fast in Barack Obama's first two years OF AMERICA'S 876 federal judgeships, 110 are vacant at present. Confirmations for Barack Obama's nominees have come more slowly than [...]