Amid the pre-Jan. 3 buzz, it's worth remembering that Republicans in most states, for better or worse, haven't been doing much in the way of following Iowa's lead in selecting a GOP presidential nominee.

In attacking Bush's tax cuts, Gephardt is betting the economy will remain the nation's top concern.

Campaign 2004 pits outsiders against insiders and "true" Democrats against "new" ones.

A politician has the right to change his views, but isn't it disingenuous to do that and then denounce people who hold the positions you once held as being unprincipled.

There's a new candidate in the Democratic race. The candidate's name: "expected." Winning isn't enough. You have to do better than "expected."

If Ryan ran, he would probably drive the other candidates further away from his own plan while forcing them to come up with serious alternatives of their own. If he got the nomination, many think he would clean Obama's clock in the debates.

Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.), minority leader, U.S. House of Representatives, and Jack Kemp, codirector, Empower America, met at AEI on February 28, 1996 for a debate on the proposed flat tax. The event was part of the Amgen Forum, a series of AEI policy debates, lectures, and conferences sponsored...

Vermonter is the clear favorite to win the invisible primary.