Tuesday’s groundswells were less about a GOP renaissance than the return of the Perotistas.

At State, as in the Senate, she often talks softly—but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t carry a big stick.

How the public option, helped by a congressman looking for an issue and a shrewdly silent White House, returned from the brink.

The turnaround artist who made the Treasury secretary telegenic.

It’s not pretty at this moment.

Michael Steele and Bobby Jindal don’t look like the vast majority of Republicans. But do new faces mean new ideas?

With the Daschle mess and the outsourcing of the stimulus bill to the Democratic Congress, Obama runs the risk (already!) of seeming same-old, same-old.

The left quadrant of Obama’s base wants to stay relevant by staying angry. And the right doesn’t have anything to do but get angry. So who’s his biggest problem?

Without entirely realizing it, America elected its first Independent president. The implications for how the country will be governed are profound, exhilarating, and loaded with risk.

Why the current president is rooting for the next one.