"Poorly" is the word of the government shutdown.
Finish this sentence: ‘The Republican party is ______.’
The answers -- provided by attendees of the Values Voter Summit -- might surprise you.
GOP pollster on the NBC-WSJ numbers: ‘Significant and consequential’
Bill McInturff, who helped conduct the poll, offers his perspective on what it all means.
The five biggest political questions for the fall of 2013
Who will win the Virginia's governor's race? And can the GOP establishment overcome cast-iron conservatives’ desire for a confrontation?
How Obama’s anti-leak policy has chilled the free press
Obama's anti-leak policy has chilled press freedoms in the U.S., according to a new report.
Why Republicans are losing the shutdown blame game
When political parties look political to the public, they lose.
What Bob Woodward can tell us about President Obama and John Boehner
How the 2012 fiscal cliff negotiations predicted the current morass.
House Republicans are offering a debt ceiling deal. What now?
Speaker John Boehner's proposal raises more questions than it provides answers.
Ted Cruz is growing his national profile. Why that’s not all good news for him.
Cruz has been talking (a lot) in recent weeks. And the public has been tuning in.