Peter Wallsten

Stung by accusations from some Democrats that bigotry underlies opposition to President Barack Obama and wary of further setbacks among minority voters, some Republicans are pushing back with a new...

-- President Barack Obama in recent days has staked out a conservative position on the treatment of illegal immigrants in his health care overhaul -- a new stance that has...

For Barack Obama, the upstart Illinois senator who thought he could be president, January of 2008 was a critical moment. As the fight for the Democratic nomination heated up, Hillary...

In calling last month for a "common ground" on abortion, President Barack Obama launched his search for an unlikely political sweet spot -- a popular stance on an issue that...

Rush Limbaugh called her a "reverse racist." The conservative Judicial Confirmation Network said she carried a "personal political agenda" and should be blocked from the Supreme Court. But underneath the...

In the short time Americans have come to know their new first family, they've learned that the president doesn't want a puppy sleeping on his bed, the girls hate green...

The Chevy Volt, the electric car of the future being developed by General Motors, is too expensive to survive in the marketplace. GM is still relying too much on high-margin...

With their prospects in Congress sinking along with the economy, liberal advocates of giving undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship are launching a risky strategy to push lawmakers and the...

The election of Barack Obama as president has been hailed as a crowning achievement of America's civil rights movement, the triumph of a black candidate in a nation with a...

It was just Monday when President Obama told a prime-time news conference that appointing three Republicans to his Cabinet reflected an "unprecedented" commitment to bipartisanship. But by Thursday, with the...