This Chief of Staff to the POTUS is a fascinating role. It's not in the Constitution and didn't even exist until World War II, moderator David Gergen pointed out, yet it wields tremendous power.

The Obama administration is wrong to withhold these documents from Congress and the American people. I say this as a former White House chief of staff...

While the stewardship of the U.S. economy, jobs, health care, immigration, and foreign policy are all important considerations in this year's election, the safeguarding of constitutional rights for all Americans is at least as critical.

WASHINGTON -- Former Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.) a beloved progressive whom activists and party officials had pushed to consider a gubernatorial run in...

WASHINGTON -- It was a glamorous weekend in the nation's capital, as two of the year's most anticipated galas raised millions for good causes at the h...

While the President's failings in the first term have been well chronicled, what are the chances for a different, more successful second term in the White House?

By Aaron Mehta, iWatch News 5:59 am, July 28, 2011If there was any doubt about whether Tony and Heather Podesta qualify as a Washington power c...

LGBT Americans are not political prisoners of the Democratic Party -- nor should we be a political football for the Republican Party.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has the executive authority to bypass a hostile Republican House of Representatives and a bitterly divided Senate...

At the Good Men Project Magazine, we want to believe that there are a few good men in politics. We need to believe it. So we spent the last few months looking for them.

Welcome to my regular update of my food for thought session where I prepare and share a meal with the great and the good in political circles garnishe...

If social network analysis is so powerful, why isn't it used more often--in intelligence and elsewhere?

John Podesta, former Clinton chief of staff and leader of Obama's transition team, thinks American politics are in a sad state. Actually, he thinks it...

Serious critiques of the internal game around Obama have to be read -- because Obama is not winning. He is failing, and people need to consider why.

Democratic operative John Podesta on Sunday offered one of the most stinging rebukes yet of Republican claims that law enforcement agents mishandled t...

Two of the most powerful union officials in the country lashed out at Senate Democrats on Tuesday, jokingly calling some of them legislative "terroris...

During ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, Arianna and Center for American Progress CEO John Podesta sparred over President Obama's escalation of the war in ...

Despite his leadership and sensible decision-making, I support Lincoln Chafee for another reason -- for his brave and correct view on same sex marriage equality in Rhode Island.

Service, expertise, and time. Those are the real challenges of the Healthcare debate.

John Podesta, the former White House chief of staff who ran President Obama's transition and still advises the administration on health care and other...