Earlier this week we made the case for Richard Nixon's inclusion in the Fix Political Hall of Fame. Today we make the opposite argument. Any conversation about Nixon and his legacy begins and ends...

The Senate this afternoon confirmed Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) as labor secretary, more than two months after she was nominated for the post by President Obama.

John Corpus let his 10-year-old daughter, Kennedy, skip her last day of fourth grade at Aldo Leopold Community School to attend a packed town hall meeting where she could see the president of the United States up close.

President Obama will host the entire Senate Democratic caucus for lunch at the White House on Tuesday, in an effort to review the achievements of his first six months in office...

Fresh off his trip to Iraq, Vice President Biden will wade deep into the health-care debate next week, according to administration sources. Biden is slated to give his "first major health policy address" Tuesday to the National Association of...

353,228 That's the voter registration advantage that Democrats (780,338) hold over Republicans (427,110) in Connecticut, a massive edge that makes Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I) announced opposition to a health care compromise all the more baffling from a...

Tennessee Rep. Bart Gordon will not seek re-election in 2010, becoming the fourth Democrat sitting in a swing district to retire in the last several weeks. "When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now,...

1. President Obama will sit down today with the chief executives of the nation's biggest banks -- see full list below -- to give them a bit of tough love. Asked what the president's message will be, one senior administration official pointed to...

As the end of the first decade of the 21st century(!) draws ever closer, the Fix has turned contemplative. That contemplation has centered -- as it almost always does -- on politics, specifically on the best races from that decade that was. And,...

Hawaii Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D) will resign his seat to focus full time on his run for governor in 2010, a move almost certain to set off a special election next year. "I cannot claim the governorship should be a cornerstone of our democracy and not...