Politics & Diplomacy
Hashimoto to retract sex suggestion for U.S. military
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use its adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex offenses.
Politics & Diplomacy Apr 8, 2013
Can GOP governors save their ailing party?
by Dan Balz
The Republican National Committee (RNC) task force report painted a stark portrait of a party divided between its struggling federal wing and its thriving gubernatorial wing. The GOP’s path to rehabilitation may indeed run through the states, but some of the report’s assertions about ...
Politics & Diplomacy Apr 1, 2013
Have U.S. political parties lost their purpose?
by Karen Tumulty
The Democrats and Republicans may be worlds apart on most things, but at their headquarters just two blocks away from each other on Capitol Hill, each is confronting the same question: Have political parties lost their purpose? In the wake of two presidential defeats, ...
Politics & Diplomacy Mar 25, 2013
Can GOP learn something from Democrats past?
by Dan Balz
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus deserves credit for launching a reclamation project for his beleaguered party. The report by the RNC’s Growth and Opportunity Project lays bare the depth of the problems of a party that has lost the popular vote in five ...
Politics & Diplomacy Mar 18, 2013
Republican divide deepens at conservative gathering
by Aaron Blake
If there was any doubt that there is a huge amount of discord within the Republican Party, the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference should put it to rest. The suburban Washington gathering of the most conservative elements of the GOP last week featured speaker ...
Politics & Diplomacy Feb 25, 2013
Who is the real John McCain?
by Jason Horowitz
John McCain was excited. It was late January, and the following day, he and a group of bipartisan senators were set to announce their framework for comprehensive immigration reform. He picked up the phone and called an old friend in Arizona. “We got it ...