A local TV station in Paul Ryan's home state of Wisconsin is refusing to air an ad that features an elderly woman being thrown from a cliff, an attack...

Paul Ryan has repeatedly promised to close enough loopholes that benefit the rich to pay for the massive tax cuts in his budget plan. But when it comes to the specifics, the Wisconsin congressman goes all fuzzy.

Reporters don't get admission into the innermost important workings of a presidential campaign until the historians do -- if ever -- but on some rare ...

Aware of the razor-thin margin separating himself and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren in liberal Massachusetts, Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) has ...

WARREN, Ohio — Republican vice presidential contender Paul Ryan says he never would have included a $700 billion Medicare cut in his budget if P...

It's unclear what effect Romney's decision to add Rep. Paul Ryan to his ticket will have on his candidacy, if any. But the choice certainly has had a salutary effect on the Obama re-election campaign.

Democrats are taking to the airwaves to attack the plan by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to turn Medicare into quasi-voucher program, a strategy that in the...

Not only has the Republican Party shown that its most intransigent wing is now in the ascendancy, making a post-election deal unlikely, but the Ryan nomination makes it easier to draw a clear distinction between the parties on Social Security and Medicare.

Paul Ryan is down to debate Medicare. The presumptive vice presidential nominee addressed the popular health care system for seniors on Wednesday ...

In a race where Romney has made the charge of class warfare against Democrats, he is waging it with this pick.

There were fresh indications today that Democrats in Congress have rediscovered their spine in the fight to protect Social Security. The development is a gift to all of us on this -- the 77th birthday of the program.

It is disturbing when politicians talk about Medicaid like it's some sort of handout. Medicaid serves as an insurance program that is there because someday you may need it -- either for your child, your parents, or yourself.

In January 1988, Republican presidential candidate Jack Kemp, the former boss and mentor of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), employed a dirty campaign tactic:...

President Barack Obama's reelection campaign renewed its effort to refocus the debate on a "choice election" with a new television ad Tuesday that hig...

In these highly volatile economic times, when millions of Americans lost their life savings in the 2008 Wall Street crash, it is important to remember that since its inception, through good economic times and bad, Social Security has paid every penny owed to every eligible beneficiary.

Paul Ryan is best known as the author of a budget plan that would decimate the social contract and require the middle class to pay for massive tax breaks for the wealthy. But it would be a mistake to focus just on his horrible economic ideas.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is making it clear that it will not let Republicans walk away from once backing their newly-minted vic...

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