Last week I wrote about the standings in the presidential race and said it looked like a long, hard slog through about a dozen clearly identified target states, much like the contests in 2000 and 2004. Call it the 2000/2004 long, hard slog scenario.

Just when the mainstream media thought that Barack Obama was pulling ahead in the polls, with positive job ratings, and just after the media have been savaging Republicans for two words Rush Limbaugh uttered on his radio program, Obama's numbers seem to be tanking.

Moisés Naím and other experts will discuss the Venezuelan economy and its impact on neighboring states.

This event was the fourth installment of AEI's series, Politics Watch.

Polls indicate that Americans would blame both Obama and Republicans if the government shuts down in two weeks.

Is it really ethical for public unions, who's salary comes from tax payers, to contribute to political campaigns?

Has Barack Obama's Democratic party given up on winning the votes of the white working class? Thomas Edsall, the longtime Washington Post reporter now with the Huffington Post, thinks so.

Washington was all a-Twitter (literally) Monday over Politico's story about the sexual harassment charges against Herman Cain -- and about Cain's serial self-contradictions.