Erskine Bowles, co-chair of President Barack Obama's budget-deficit commission, had unusual praise for Paul Ryan at a 2011 event, shown in a video pos...

WASHINGTON -- When newly minted vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan entered Congress in 1999, he wasn't one of the richest lawmakers, with an averag...

WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold was one of the Senate's leading voices on foreign policy while in office, opposing the Iraq War and cal...

In 2009, as Representative Paul Ryan was railing against President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package as a "wasteful spending spree," he wrote at l...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) quickly became the most popular politician amongst Republicans in the state this week after Mitt Romney tapped h...

As Eric Boehlert pointed out, the most amusing thing about the way the media has treated Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate is t...

When people do find out what is in the Ryan budget, they mostly don't like it. But the American public shows an enormous ability (as always) to come to the wrong conclusion, as well. Who frames this issue best in the next month is going to win the election.

I just read a fast-moving mystery novel, Pryme Knumber, by Matthew J Flynn. It was a great read, and none other than Paul Ryan (R-WI) appears briefly....

We made hamburgers at McDonald's. We were both altar boys and we remain practicing Catholics. And Paul Ryan and I both read Ayn Rand as teenagers and were captivated by her radical individualism. That, however, is where the similarities end.

WASHINGTON -- Since Paul Ryan was chosen as Mitt Romney’s running mate, Republicans in competitive congressional races have tried to strike a balanc...

When I first heard the news about Mitt Romney's choice of a running mate, I had a sneaking suspicion that this was the Romney camp's solution to the w...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Republican Paul Ryan says President Barack Obama is diminishing the future for the nation's children. The Wisconsin congressma...

Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney's average Saturday turned into an emotional roller coaster. The duo officially tied the presidential-ticket knot in Norfo...

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — House Speaker John Boehner hasn't forgotten the help he got from the Ohio college student who staked up the campaign si...

Paul Ryan is a 70-year-old man trapped in the body of young man. He's the Benjamin Button of American politics and just as Brad Pitt's portrayal of the character came up short after clinching an Oscar nomination, Ryan's nomination for Vice President will suffer the same fate.

GOP vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is a skilled bowhunter and one-time Oscar Meyer Weinermobile jockey, but according to a propos...

I don't want to hire as my vice president and federal budget czar somebody who uses Congressional inside information to profit by switching his portfolio back and forth between Citigroup and Goldman five times a year: I want somebody with better ethics.

When GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his vice presidential pick over the weekend, he wasn't just injecting...

Instead of 6-, 7- and 8-year-olds asking the man behind the prize counter if they have enough tickets for a new yo-yo, the Ryan Medicare plan would have 70-, 80- and 90-year-olds asking their insurance company if they have enough vouchers for a hip replacement or heart catheterization.

It's going to be something of a weird experience, but for the first time in my life, I'll be voting Democratic in this fall's presidential election.

Putting Paul on the ticket is not so much a bold move as a coward's idea of courage. A bold move would have been to put a liberal Republican who might have infuriated some of the Republican base, but given the ticket a better chance of winning centrist voters in November on the ticket.

In picking Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney has given some small hope that the election will restore progressive thinking to its legitimate place in our political discourse. The lines are now drawn for a stark confrontation that the White House and Democrats cannot avoid.