Reading the economy’s signals can often be bewildering, especially in an election year. Consumer sentiment is down, but economic statistics remain relatively strong. The stock market is regularly ...

Sixty-one years ago this month, Alabama state troopers attacked civil rights marchers on. On March 7, 1965, the world looked on in horror as activists were bloodied because they were marching for ...

Although month‑to‑month movement is modest, the president's polling on two cornerstone issues is heading the wrong way.

A year ago yesterday, President Trump turned the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom to try to boost the slumping sales of his then-pal Elon Musk’s electric-car company. A few months ago, Trump ...

Will the Iran war turn President Donald Trump’s 1980s boom into a 1970s stagflation? Only if it drags out, which the president says he plans to avoid. But the enemy gets a vote too, as the saying goes ...

Rahm Emanuel has no shortage of action plans for Democrats, whom he thinks are poised for success in the fall midterms if they get their message right. The former Obama chief of staff was an ...

He has now made one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency: launching a war against Iran. The conflict, which ...

Winnebago County Board member Paul Arena faces a challenge from Michelle Lewis in a District 7 election rematch.

There is going to be a political price for it,” Austin Davis, lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, a crucial election swing ...

The Ohio and Kentucky stops were meant to promote economic gains, but rising oil prices and Republican dissent over Iran threaten to complicate the message.

Based on Bloomberg's macro forecasting model, oil at $108 per barrel adds about 0.8 percentage points to US inflation by year-end. Stack that on top of the pre-war inflation forecast of roughly 2.9%, ...

The Democratic race for the Kane County Board seat in District 2 in the March 17 primary election includes Ellen Nottke, Matthew Dingeldein and Martha Davidson.