Romney doesn't second-guess loss
Easing his way back into public life, Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential candidate, in a TV interview Sunday mostly declined to reflect on his campaign’s shortcomings in his first...
View ArticleRepublicans unite around budget cuts
WASHINGTONConservative 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...
View ArticleRyan budget aims to roll back Obama agenda
WASHINGTONFour months after Republicans suffered a convincing defeat in the presidential election, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, the party’s vice-presidential nominee, unveiled a...
View ArticleGroup attacks Republicans on tax issue
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 to...
View ArticleJennifer Carroll's rise and fall
By CHRISTINE JORDAN SEXTON and LIZETTE ALVAREZTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As the annual press corps political roast unfolded here on Tuesday evening, Gov. Rick Scott stared stone-faced, holding a secret, while...
View ArticleGOP plans 2016 primary overhaul
WASHINGTONIn a sweeping review of the party’s 2012 election efforts, Republican leaders say too many voters saw their party as out of touch with the country’s needs and call for a new approach to...
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Dr. Benjamin Carson's rise
By TRIP GABRIELBALTIMORE — Dr. Benjamin Carson was a political unknown just weeks ago.Then with a single speech delivered as President Obama looked stonily on, he was lofted into the conservative...
View ArticleRubio, Paul trade elbows
WASHINGTONThey are supposed to be natural allies: two relatively young conservatives from the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party who ascended to the Senate in the Republican sweep of 2010 and...
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David Stockman: 'The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually'
By DAVID A. STOCKMANGREENWICH, Conn. -- The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the stock market’s last peak, in...
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Tribute to an 'Iron Lady'
By JOSEPH R. GREGORYMargaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” of British politics, who turned her country in a sharply conservative direction, led it to victory in the Falklands war and helped guide the...
View ArticleBiden weighs political future
WASHINGTONVice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. showed up late at an event last week, saying he was delayed because “the president keeps those meetings going longer.” But he walked into a Hillary Clinton...
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Senate to allow debate on guns
By JENNIFER STEINHAUERWASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday cleared the way for debate on the first piece of major gun-control legislation to be considered in that chamber in two decades.With families of...
View ArticleAt Missouri school some teachers armed
WEST PLAINS, Mo.At 8:30 on a cloudy, frigid morning late last month in this folksy Ozark town, the superintendent of an area school strolled through the glass doors of the local newspaper office to...
View ArticleRubio endorses immigration bill
Senator Marco Rubio offered an extraordinary endorsement of legislation to overhaul the nation’s badly strained immigration system on Sunday when, after holding back for weeks, he appeared on no fewer...
View ArticleGeorge W. hopes Jeb runs
Former President George W. Bush said in an interview released Friday that he hopes his brother Jeb runs for president in 2016, and that members of his family should not “be afraid of entering the...
View ArticleOnline sales tax push divides GOP
WASHINGTONLegislation that would force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes from their customers has put antitax and small-government activists like Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and...
View ArticleImmigration splits Rubio, DeMint
WASHINGTONJim DeMint helped make Marco Rubio a Senate star — and he could be forgiven for regretting it.Mr. DeMint, a former Republican senator from South Carolina, endorsed Mr. Rubio early on in his...
View ArticleImmigration bill faces tough road
WASHINGTONAs a gun safety bill dissolved on the Senate floor last month, a group of eight senators — some who had supported the failed measure — had already moved on to a policy battle they found more...
View ArticleRubio disputes Heritage report
WASHINGTONSenator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, aggressively pushed back Tuesday against a Heritage Foundation report that estimated new immigration legislation would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion...
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GOP delays on nominees raise tension
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's latest Cabinet-level nominees are running into deep resistance in the Senate, pitching Democrats and Republicans into another tense standoff over White House...
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