It may have taken us 100 years to get it right with respect to race-restrictions on the freedom to marry, but it doesn't mean those laws weren't unconstitutional in 1868. The same is true, nearly 150 years after the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, for laws that deny gay and lesbian couples the freedom to marry.

HOUSTON — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has spent much of the past three years loudly and defiantly fighting against what he views as Washington meddlin...

The Texas Senate GOP primary has now become a battle between Rick Perry and Sarah Palin....

AUSTIN, Texas — God forgives people for their "oops moments" even if the American electorate does not, failed Republican presidential candidate ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas -- Rick Perry acknowledged Monday that he's not used to losing but also vowed "I'm not slipping off into the sunset" while promising...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry's White House bid tarnished his image enough that he's about as popular in his solidly Republican home sta...

Texas Governor Rick Perry has finally come to grips with reality and decided to drop out of the contest for the Republican nomination for President. ...

Rick Perry on Monday joined Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich in calling for Mitt Romney to release his tax returns quickly, so that voters can find out...

PICKENS, S.C. — Rick Perry is pouring on the down-home charm as he seeks a campaign revival in South Carolina, betting that geographic kinship w...

Iit's time to haul out the old crystal ball and attempt to predict what's going to happen. If you hate these types of speculative wonktastic articles, then I strongly advise you to just close this article right now.

SPARTANBURG -- Heath Stephens, a 48-year-old auto repair shop owner, has decided he is not voting for Mitt Romney....

Former Arkansas governor and 2008 GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said this week that Rick Perry may have damaged his presidential campaign i...

Griffin Perry, son of GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, tweeted a jab at his father's rival on Thursday, using a college sports rivalry to rib Ri...

Will Romney be able to conduct a campaign fighting on four fronts, and ultimately take the presidency? I don't think so.

Virginia Law sets the conditions for candidates to get on the Virginia primary ballot. Now come Gingrich, Santorum, Perry and Bachmann asking a judge to overrule the law and put them on the ballot. What kind of judge could possibly do that?

Mitt Romney has money and the moderate politics to give the president a tough fight in the fall. But he doesn't give his own party those sweaty palms of excitement. He could have a very miserable 2012.

After surging in the polls on the heels of announcing his candidacy last August, Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaign took a turn for the worse. A series ...

If Santorum does very well in Iowa, I plan to send him money, and suggest that millions of others do too. Why? Because the country desperately needs to "have it out", to have a clear choice about alternative futures and to choose one.

It's been a long 12 months for Rick Perry....

WASHINGTON, Iowa -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry is questioning former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's conservative credentials. Perry said Thursday tha...

By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON--Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry's new opposition to abortion in almost any situation may appease co...

INDIANOLA, Iowa — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry said Wednesday that he has "always struggled" with his position on abortion and cla...

It is time to turn America's chaotic primary system back into something that makes sense. It is time America produces an election process that brings out the best and most centrist candidates for the nation's highest office.