A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from.

In what is likely to become a recurring theme for the Obama campaign, Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday ridiculed Mitt Romney’s assertion that he deserves some credit for the auto industry’s recovery.

Earmarks were supposed to be banished by Republicans in Congress. Why then is John Boehner and Mitch McConnell pushing for one?

Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a bill into law that would allow pharmacists to refuse to provide drugs they believe might cause an abortion.

Romney's adviser says that Mitt doesn’t want to really engage on foreign policy issues until he’s in office. Think Progress tells you exactly why that is and how Obama has a decided advantage over him.

Jeff Flake's history as a lobbyist may come back to bite him in the election this year as it portrays him as Washington insider.

A month or so ago, I wrote about a bill in Arizona (HB 2625) that would permit employers to opt-out of the so-called birth control mandate and interrogate their female employees about their sexual practices, all in the name of “religious freedom”

House Republicans' latest bill demolishes vital social programs that have made this country both stronger and fairer over the last half-century while preserving bloated military spending and unjustifiably low tax rates for the rich.

In his new book, former Secretary of State Colin Powell provides what may be the most authoritative confirmation yet that there was never a considered debate in the George W. Bush White House about whether going to war in Iraq was really a good idea.

Republican Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, a 35-year member of the Senate and one of Washington’s leading experts on U.S. foreign policy, lost his bid for reelection Tuesday to Richard Mourdock

It’s a common thing for a presidential candidate to pontificate about an issue of the day. It’s quite another for one to take credit for something he had no discernible role in.

The North Carolina pastor whose violent anti-gay rant blew up across the blogosphere says he meant it "figuratively".

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to again look at former Illinois Gov. George Ryan's bid to overturn his corruption convictions, offering the imprisoned Republican a chance, however slim, at a new trial.

Romney's aide says the auto bailout was all Romney's idea, even after Romney said that the U.S. should "let Detroit go bankrupt."

2012 election predictions based on HuffPost Polls.

If President Obama has failed as spectacularly as his Republican detractors argue, shouldn't it be easier for them to come up with honest attack ads?

Arizona Democratic House Minority Leader Chad Campbell vented some frustration about the legislative dealings of his state this week, saying that they had been largely hijacked by the "Tea Party and conspiracy theorists."

You probably have never heard of New Mexico politician Michael Wiener. Neither had a Seattle photographer when he ran into him one night last month in a Philippines sex district.

A federal judge has ruled that Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) violated the Constitution last year when he ordered drug testing for state government workers.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s rewrite of James Carville’s 1992 line that “it’s the economy stupid,” is drawing a sharp blast from the Rajin Cajun.