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He’d blown the first debate. Now he was on the verge of blowing the second and risking his reelection. In an excerpt from their new book, Double Down, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann describe the moment when a president was talked away from the edge.

And the tristate area will once again be the nation’s capital of presidential ambition.

The Republicans have thrown down the gauntlet over the possibility that Susan Rice will replace Hillary Clinton. But the winner is already clear.

Now that Obama won the election, the race to decide the future begins.

The storm swept one candidate toward the finish. But whoever loses has only himself to blame.

Four ways the campaign may be undead on November 7.

Both campaigns know that in the swing states, women are the swingers.

If Obama wins, it may be because the former president saved his presidency—but what exactly do the Clintons get in return?

At the debate in Denver, it finally happened—but Obama looked like the one who was shaken.

Muslim unrest has created a challenge for Obama and the nation—and a different kind of crisis for the Romney campaign.