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Radislaw ('Radek') Sikorski, Minister of Defence of Poland, has discussed the American-European relations, the Polish Army and its presence in Iraq, NATO, Belarus and Adolf Hitler. He has also spoken about his family and the advantages and disadvantages of having a wife who is active in political affairs.

Republicans were badly hurt by Watergate in 1974. Now Democratic chances are damaged by the Clinton scandals. With weeks to go before voters decide the fate of all 435 members [...]

Just imagine four Republican Parties and a dozen or more issue-based splinters of the Democratic Party. That's the way it seems to be in this election season. In the absence [...]

Internecine warfare within the two major parties over a plethora of political issues will make for a bumpy election season. From abortion to trade, Republicans are wrangling with Republicans and [...]

Nasra Hassan's insightful discussion of Pakistani jihadis, 'Al-Qaedas Undestudy' (June Atlantic), started me thinking how little we've adjusted military doctrine to fit the realities of ancient-cum-modern religious warfare. All the […]

Byline: John Gizzi In a startling development in Virginia's race for governor, a just-completed Newsmax/Zogby survey shows Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Ken Cuccinelli in a virtual dead heat. The [...]

Byline: John Gizzi With New York Reps. Chris Gibson and Richard Hanna the only Republicans among 233 in the House to vote on Saturday against the continuing resolution that delays [...]

Byline: John Gizzi Following an hour-long telephone town hall meeting Sunday with his constituents in South Carolina's 1st District, Republican Rep. Mark Sanford told Newsmax that their message was, 'It's [...]

Byline: John Gizzi Nine candidates competed in Tuesday's Republican primary for the vacant U.S. House seat in Alabama's 1st District, with the two top vote-getters heading to a Nov. 5 [...]

Byline: John Gizzi All but lost in the furor surrounding last week's House vote to fund the government without Obamacare was an anniversary that is meaningful in terms of the [...]

Byline: John Gizzi With much being made in the international press about a possibly historic handshake between President Barack Obama and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani at the U.N. General Assembly [...]

Byline: John Gizzi Since the stunning withdrawal Monday of William Daley from the Democratic primary for governor of Illinois, prognosticators have been offering various reasons why Barack Obama's former White [...]

Byline: John Gizzi Conservatives in Colorado say the recall of two Democratic state senators had a much greater significance than voter anger over new gun-control legislation. 'The vote here Tuesday [...]

Byline: John Gizzi Voucher programs give underprivileged children a chance to attend better schools, and their graduation rate is on the upswing. But the biggest threat to this continued opportunity [...]

Byline: John Gizzi If New York City grocery store billionaire John Catsimatidis wins the Republican nomination for the city's mayoral race, several top political strategists says he has the best [...]

Byline: John Gizzi Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the military man who appears to be running things in Egypt, accepts a democratic form of government but says that there must be [...]

Byline: John Gizzi San Diego will hold a mayoral election - and a run-off of top vote-getters if needed - by the end of the year, following Friday's announcement by [...]

Byline: John Gizzi Two former U.S. senators who were close to Ronald Reagan are the latest of his associates to voice strong disagreement with his portrayal as racially insensitive in [...]

Byline: John Gizzi After Rep. Dave Camp made it official that he would not run for the seat of retiring Democratic Sen. Carl Levin in 2014, momentum among Michigan Republicans [...]

Byline: John Gizzi As controversy rages over whether it was proper satire for a clown to wear a mask of President Barack Obama and dared a bull to run him [...]

Byline: John Gizzi By far the most important move made by members of the Republican National Committee at their summer meeting in Boston was their general agreement that their next [...]