Today, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in what has been dubbed the Hobby Lobby case, a catch-all name for two…

On Thursday Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)—chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee—told Rep.…

On Wednesday the U.S. Senate voted 47-52 to reject President Barack Obama’s nomination of former NAACP Legal Defense…

If you read my profile in The Root of African-American Tea Partier Katrina Pierson on Tuesday, you know that in her…

Today one of the biggest national drugstore chains announced something that would once have been unthinkable: It…

Though the candidates rarely discussed poverty during the 2012 presidential election season, it now seems to have…

The family of New York City Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio has already begun to emerge as a model American family for…

Apparently Rep. Jack Kingston has taken it upon himself to pick up where Mitt Romney left off in attempting to…

This week the New York Times landed in the news in a way the paper probably wishes it had not. A reporter teased a…

By any measure the last few months have not been a high point for the Obama administration. The rollout of the…

As the battle over whether employers can opt to decline to cover birth control on religious grounds heads to the…

When your party’s presidential candidate can only muster a dismal 6 percent of black votes, 27 percent of Latino…

Those who know me well know that despite the fact that I make most of my living writing about politics, I almost…

Sasha Obama has done it again. Weeks ago the youngest first daughter wore a sweater in public that ended up selling…

Despite the seemingly endless bad press that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act has received in recent weeks,…

The 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination generated extensive media coverage of what…

Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid has generated most of the headlines for his willingness to “go nuclear,”…

Yesterday the president said what every American not living under a rock already knew: “I mean, we fumbled the…

In a brand-new policy role, first lady Michelle Obama is getting behind President Obama’s goal to ensure that the…

Thanks to the book Game Change, which captured the behind-the-scenes drama of the 2008 presidential campaign,…