The politician who has done more than any other to set the national agenda this year will soon return to Washington. It is not President Barack Obama. It's House Speaker John Boehner....
This has been a consequential week for the GOP presidential race. The three leading contenders benefited from events and each now faces new challenges....
Following the passage of the unpopular debt-ceiling bill and a barrage of awful economic numbers, the Standard & Poor's downgrade of America's credit rating capped the worst week of Barack Obama's presidency....
After big events like Tuesday's debt-ceiling vote, Washington goes into overdrive to declare who won and who lost. But politics is more complex and less binary than that. In this case, neither party helped itself with the public during this struggle....
This Sunday, while Congress will continue battling over the debt ceiling at one end of Pennsylvania Avenue, across town where Georgetown begins, at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and M Street, Furin's restaurant will close after 27 years....
President Barack Obama gave quite a performance at last Friday's news conference....
President Barack Obama and Congress face a mess if the federal government hits the debt ceiling Aug. 2....
The weaker the hand Barack Obama has to play, the more sanctimonious he becomes....