Richard Lugar

Obama nominates John Kerry to be next secretary of State

2012-12-21 07:35:00

WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of State on Friday, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his foreign policy worldview and...

A primer for the 113th Congress

2013-01-03 03:00:00

WASHINGTON – With the “fiscal cliff” averted despite the failure to solve key budget issues, the 112th Congress will close out its widely criticized term and the 113th Congress will be sworn in Thursday. The outgoing Congress was...

McManus: The death of the moderate Republican

2012-11-18 00:00:00

Republicans just lost eight seats in the House. But if you'd wandered into the House of Representatives last week without reading the election returns, you might have concluded that the GOP won big on Nov. 6. "We have the second-largest Republican House...

It's an easy call: Sen. Feinstein

2012-10-11 00:00:00

When a public official has been in office as long as Dianne Feinstein has served in the U.S. Senate, voters understandably wonder whether it shouldn't be someone else's turn. But change for the sake of change is seldom a compelling argument for...

Mitt Romney chokes on Richard Mourdock's rape comment

2012-10-25 23:31:00

Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, the tea party usurper who took down Sen. Richard Lugar in the Republican primary, created the biggest political buzz of the week by uttering the following sentence in a televised debate: “I think even...

An exit interview with Rep. David Dreier

2012-10-10 00:00:00

David Dreier was 26, still living in a dorm at Claremont McKenna College and working as a college administrator, when he ran for Congress the first time, in 1978. He lost then but never thereafter. Sixteen times, Dreier was elected to the House of...

Britain, Sweden have little leverage with Ecuador over Assange

2012-08-16 13:43:21

Michael Dukakis, Prof. Politics

2012-05-30 00:00:00

The man who made his political bones handling Boston's blizzard of 1978 has spent the last 17 winters in the sunshine glow of UCLA. Michael Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor and the 1988 Democratic presidential candidate for president, is a...

Weekend Talk Shows: Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee; Angelina Jolie

2012-06-01 16:37:13

Weekend TV Talk Shows: Newt Gingrich; Rudy Giuliani; Antonio Villaraigosa

2012-05-25 21:37:38

McManus: Americans Elect meets reality

2012-05-17 00:00:00

What happens if you start a political party and nobody comes? Six months ago, a newfangled third party burst onto the scene, full of hope and promise. It was called Americans Elect, and it sought to give voters a choice many said they were looking for:...

Linda Parks for 26th Congressional District

2012-05-10 00:00:00

California's redistricting reforms of 2008 and 2010 took crucial boundary drawing power away from political parties and gave it to an independent commission. The "top two" initiative of 2010 snatched the primaries away from the parties by awarding the...

Former U.S. Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana (Wikipedia.com)

2013-05-07 06:17:00

Sen. Richard Lugar

2012-12-12 12:59:00

South Bend Tribune/JAMES BROSHER U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., speaks to reporters at Koontz-Wagner Electric, a manufacturer of controls for the Keystone XL pipeline, on Monday, April 30, 2012, in South Bend.

2012-11-07 00:00:00