Democrats thought that anger over the Iraq war would drive them to victory. What happened?

Facing a determined recall effort by Democrats in his home state, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) defended his public-employee reforms as adjustments that ultimately protect the middle class.

While some Republicans have been distancing themselves from Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed Medicare overhaul, Florida's junior senator, Marco Rubio, has emerged in recent weeks as Ryan's most ardent public defender.

Just a few weeks ago Romney accused people who use these tactics of "demagoguing [the] issue" and said such rhetoric "harms America." Now he is engaging in the same demagoguery himself.

Oil production, made possible by the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, is unlocking vast supplies of energy from the North Dakota's Bakken formation and putting it on an economic trajectory that is unmatched elsewhere in the country.

The GOP does need to be more optimistic and pro-growth. It can't just sell reality-based pain when the opposition is selling the cheap lies of deceit.

Mandatory voting could be a valuable reform for the American political system, which is increasingly divided along partisan lines, and move it toward a middle ground.

The AARP knows that long-term stock and bond investing is not gambling;instead of scare tactics,it should offerits members better services, more honesty, and less hypocrisy.