There are many privileges that come with marrying into the country's most powerful political family. For instance, it earns you easy headlines.
BEIJING—A senior Chinese official sought to play down an unfolding political drama involving Chongqing's Communist Party chief, Bo Xilai, amid rising speculation that it signaled a high-level struggle over the coming national leadership ...
After a six-year effort, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would formally ban insider trading by Congress, along the way picking up support from some surprising backers—lawmakers who actively trade stocks.
The hardest working politicians in Europe today are the Greek party whips whose leaders have agreed to support a new rash of austerity. They're cajoling their parliamentary deputies to line up behind austerity legislation that trade unions ...
The Romney campaign is better at dismantling than mantling. They're better at taking opponents apart than building a compelling candidate of their own. They do not seem capable of deepening his meaning, making his stands and statements more ...
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The odds of a knockdown-dragout fight at the Republican convention rose this week after Rick Santorum’s surprising victories.
OKLAHOMA CITY—Former Sen. Rick Santorum, trying to paint the GOP presidential race as a two-man contest between himself and Mitt Romney, accused the former Massachusetts governor of playing "gotcha politics" by branding Mr. Santorum as a ...
Susan G. Komen for the Cure's decision to keep funding Planned Parenthood likely won't help the breast-cancer charity extricate itself from the politics of abortion. And after reversing a decision to stop funding the country's leading ...
CAIRO—Foreign nongovernmental organizations are working to manipulate Egypt's postrevolutionary politics, two Egyptian judges said on Wednesday, in the latest signal that Egypt won't back down from an investigation that has bruised ...
House Republicans want to change the way the federal government funds mass-transit projects -- and New Yorkers, among the heaviest transit riders in the U.S., should be worried, local leaders warned this week.
Ron Barber, a top aide to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D., Ariz.) who was wounded at the same event where the congresswoman was shot a year ago, announced Thursday he's running to take her place.
Washington's olive branch to the Taliban—no matter the excuses or justifications—amounts to the management of failure, not the mark of victory. Negotiating with the Taliban after more than 10 years of fighting means giving legitimacy and ...
'Politics have no place in health care," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement Thursday. That pronouncement may strike New Yorkers, who've spent a decade complying with Mr. Bloomberg's nanny-state mandates on smoking and trans-fats, ...
In an item yesterday on the link between decline of marriage and the decline in male wages, we observed: "The supply of labor has increased enormously over the past 40 to 50 years as more women have entered the workforce. That wages would ...
Since President Obama came to office, unconditional engagement with Iran has been official U.S. policy and total rejection of engagement has been official Iranian policy. The president has sent several letters to Iran's supreme leader, ...