The enormity of last week's super-storm is just beginning to sink into political consciousness. Hurricane Sandy should transform what Americans expect from their government, and give the party of government activism new force. As soon as the election is behind us, the country faces a major struggle over what the super-storm portends and requires. But that struggle will be as much within the Democratic Party as between Democrats and the right, because of the deadweight of austerity politics. If the fix is in for a budget deal that precludes government's ability to spend serious money on climate remediation, flood protection, and a shift to a non-carbon economy, the United States of America is just plain screwed. Few presidents get a do over. Let's see whether Obama grasps the challenge and the possibilities.

The presidency is, in Teddy Roosevelt's famous words, a bully pulpit. President Obama is in a unique position to use that pulpit to help the bottom 30 percent.

I'm a story teller. And I keep thinking about the life stories of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. In some ways, both are right out of the American storybook. Of course, some of the details would indicate that the truth can be bent.

By JIM KUHNHENN and NANCY BENAC, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MENTOR, Ohio — Reaching for the finish line, Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Ob...

Thanks to his exceptional luck in drawing Mitt Romney as his opponent, Barack Obama will probably win a narrow reelection despite the dismal recovery. But on Wednesday morning, a struggle begins within the Democratic Party to save him (and us) from himself -- to keep him from agreeing to a budget deal that will only slow growth, needlessly sacrifice Social Security and Medicare, and make the next four years much like the last four years. What a waste, what a pity. Democrats should be resisting the economic lunacy and political sway of an extremist Republican Party. Instead, they will be working to keep their own president from capitulating to fiscal folly.

As we lurch uncontrollably toward Election Day, choosing our next set of lawmakers, I've been looking for a way to cast some light on what is at stake. I think that I've found it in the oldest legal code -- the Code of Hammurabi, from 1772 B.C.

The campaign of Mitt Romney has been pounding relentlessly on the idea that President Barack Obama will raise taxes, hoping to sway voters in key swin...

This presidential campaign is shaping up as one of the most personally nasty in modern times -- and more quickly than experts thought it would. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama already are in choreographed hand-to-hand combat mode. The GOP's presumptive nominee has angrily demanded an apology from Obama himself for a campaign staffer's suggestions that Romney may have committed a felony by misstating his role at Bain Capital in a SEC filing. Romney called the remarks "outrageous" and "beneath the dignity" of Obama and the presidency. Not only did the president not apologize, he all but scoffed at his foe. Obama did not pawn off the controversy onto his campaign staff or position himself above the fray as a sitting president with much more lofty work to do.

The Wall Street Journal's editorial board issued a serious warning to Mitt Romney on Wednesday night, blasting the presumptive Republican nominee and ...

Welcome to American politics, also known as the theater of the absurd. If we re-elect Obama, we'll get deficit reductions, but also a recession in 2013. If we elect Romney, we'll avoid the recession, but we'll be on a path to national insolvency.

It is striking how off-base liberals are about Mitt Romney's bullying a boy with long, dyed hair back in 1964, leading a gang to shear him like a lamb.

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama criticized Mitt Romney by name this week for em...

Mitt Romney mocked the director of a documentary released by President Barack Obama's re-election campaign this week. Calling the film, which has a...

SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Tuesday that President Barack Obama's administration has "fought aga...

EXETER, N.H. — Mitt Romney is on cruise control – with his eyes focused intently on the White House and President Barack Obama – as ...

It is no secret that the relationship between President Obama and Wall Street has chilled. A striking measure of that is the latest campaign finance r...

WASHINGTON -- In the clearest sign yet that President Barack Obama is gearing up for a run against Mitt Romney in 2012, David Axelrod on Wednesday lai...

With Reporting By Paul Blumenthal WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney's routine castigation of the President Obama-"Harvard faculty lounge" nexus has always ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While it is still very early, indications are that the most likely match up in the 2012 presidential election will be betwe...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's approval ratings have sunk to the lowest level of his presidency, so low that he'd lose the White House to Repu...