On the surface, Senator Mary Landrieu seems to have all the strengths needed to survive as a Democrat in a red state: long experience in...

“We are not going to be talking about polar bears and butterflies,” said political strategist Chris Lehane, “We are going to be talking...

“We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,”...

Politicians like data. But trends are a different story — harder to confuse and more difficult to misapply, trends can spell out dire...

“You see homes in New Mexico where you have a crucifix and a picture of JFK on the wall, and now, President Clinton,” says New Mexico...

Spoiler alert: Check out what you can do to keep the conversation going here. It’s almost impossible not to be cynical, reading the Times...

When Barbara Walters implied that Joe Biden would not run for president if Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy on a recent episode of...

America needs to find a distraction from the presidential obsession. In Sunday’s New York Times we have an article about Republican...

The idea of religious liberty has enjoyed many roles in American society — throughout our nation’s history it has been the object of...

In my fifth column for BPR, back in October 2012, I wrote about the Supreme Court striking down campaign finance laws. Last week, the...

Last October, voters in Houston’s largely black and Democratic second district began receiving campaign mailers from candidate Dave...

Last weekend Brown kicked off its semiquincentenary – its 250th anniversary – with fireworks and a 600-pound cake. The festivities...

Increased citizen participation in government processes is a good thing – most of the time. Citizens interacting with the executive...

When Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Rehnquist’s gavel struck in Bush v. Gore, the United States went into uproar. The court...

How much does it cost to win a gubernatorial election? Or to kick out an incumbent Republican Senator? How much does it cost to save the...

On Monday, former Senator Olympia Snowe visited Brown to deliver a lecture titled “Bridging the Divide: What Hyper Partisanship means for...

Mitt, the new documentary from Netflix about the failed presidential campaign of Governor Mitt Romney, doesn’t reveal much. The film is...

The past two presidential elections have highlighted the demographic problems the GOP faces on the national stage. Defeat in 2012 showed...

In an increasingly competitive college application process, candidates fight tooth and nail for ever-more-coveted spots at their...

We’re not yet in the year 2014 (and an election season that will determine the composition of Congress for the remainder of President...