The city’s Black Caucus acknowledges that there has been a decline in the political power of the African-American community, but leaders still see black voters as an extremely important bloc.

Representative Joe Walsh, a Republican, has chosen to run against a Democrat in the newly drawn 8th District, and it may turn out to have been the right decision.

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | For the millions who are still unemployed and underemployed, the recession has not ended. The numbers are not getting better, and the economy has not improved. Those people are still in the same place they were when they lost their last good paying job.

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation set off a firestorm of controversy with its decision to pull hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from Planned Parenthood. Leaders of the country’s largest breast cancer organization argue that their move was not political, but...

So why would Mitt Romney want an endorsement from a self-promoting billionaire who loves to tell people “you’re fired!” Donald Trump is also more likely to turn voters off than turn them on to Romney. Why would Romney want Trump’s nod when it could be...