Karen Tumulty

Hickenlooper is far from the only Democrat of stature to have concerns about the party’s leftward turn, though few would put it so bluntly and publicly.

Even in this polarized environment, there are still opportunities for Trump to get something done.

Censure Trump and hold him accountable at the ballot box.

One of the most beneficial things a group of experts could do is define what problems truly exist at the border. Is there a crisis? And if so, what kind of crisis?

We have every reason to expect that Russians will interfere again - and may be doing it right now, as this country heads into a pivotal midterm election. Yet Congress has been shockingly uninterested.

A panel of 100 security experts were recently asked whether state election systems are sufficiently protected against cyberthreats. Ninety-five said no.

The matriarch of a presidential family could just as easily have stood on her own.

To assume that demographic data is all anyone needs to know - or ask - shortchanges voters and diminishes candidates.

The GOP front-runner and the man he tapped to run his campaign are an unlikely pair. One is a blustery celebrity billionaire whose hairstyle is a marvel of engineering and styling products; the other, an intense political operative who grew up in a blue-collar Massachusetts mill town and sports a no-fuss buzz cut.

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire and former New York mayor, is considering making an independent bid for the presidency, a move that could provide yet another wild turn in a 2016 race that has already seen more than its share of them.

The ghosts of the 1990s have returned to confront Hillary Clinton, released from the vault by Donald Trump and revved up by a 21st-century version of the scandal machine that almost destroyed her husband's presidency.

The candidate has brought the question from the university quad to the political arena in a way that no leading candidate has in the past.

Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to have operated in violation of what the White House said Tuesday was "very specific guidance" that members of the Obama administration use government email accounts to carry out official business.

Sarah Palin’s odd, rambling speech last weekend before an audience of committed conservative activists in Des Moines, Iowa, has many influential voices on the right saying that the time has come to acknowledge that the romance has gone cold and the marriage is dead.