What began as a standoff over spending priorities around enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies has turned into a full-blown political stress test — revealing cracks within party ranks, fiery exchanges across the aisle and growing public impatience with the gridlock on Capitol Hill.

A look at the places around New Jersey that have shifted by as much as 68 points since 2012, illustrating the changing coalitions defining the two political parties.

The SNP are not only hopeful of victory at next year's Scottish election, but are even talking of an outright majority.

Trump demanded authorities “look into” the senator after former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were indicted.

Religion focuses on the unknown and the unseen. While religion has been a tremendous force for good, it has also poisoned politics and given rise to extremists who target “the other.” I remember first hearing John Lennon’s song “Imagine” in college — envisioning “no heaven,

Once a fighting creed, the liberal spirit in America now fights for its life while drawing heavy fire from both sides. Leading intellectuals on the left attack the liberal spirit for conspiring

France’s newly reappointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu named a new government Sunday, as he faces pressure to urgently produce a budget and quell political turmoil that is scaring businesses and staining the country’s image.

Devin Talbott, founder of the Maryland-based investment firm Enlightenment Capital and chairman of voting machine giant Hart InterCivic, is under scrutiny for his extensive political donations to Democratic candidates while leading a major U.

Guidance and messaging on parenting has never seemed more confusing to some. At a gathering for mothers, the point was to focus on what they had in common.

For the losers, it should provide some critically-important lessons of where they sit with the public mood and how their messages are landing on the doorstep. They will have to learn fast, as coming down the track is an election in May with a new voting system, new giant constituencies and an expanded Senedd.