Politics

Plates tied to politics going up for auction - Boston Globe
CONCORD, N.H. - As Americans watch history being made in this year's presidential race, researchers in New Hampshire have been examining a one-of-a-kind treasure of printing plates that gave earlier generations a front-row seat to political history ...

Politics - AFP - Yahoo News
TOYAKO, Japan (AFP) - The United States and Japan called Sunday for urgent action on red-hot oil and food prices that could derail the global economy on the eve of a summit of the world's richest nations. Bush urges Americans to be proud of country ...

Politics - AP - Yahoo News
ST. LOUIS - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them. Analysis ...

The Politics of Abortion - ABC News Blogs
Jan Crawford Greenburg is a correspondent for ABC News' bureau in Washington DC. She covers the Supreme Court and provides legal analysis for ABC News. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago's law school and is a member of the New York bar. I ...

Despite promises, budget deal hardly easy - Philadelphia Inquirer
HARRISBURG - In the end, there were no furloughs of state employees or shutdowns of government offices. But the effort to approve a Pennsylvania budget this year was riddled with difficulties and bogged down by politics. The House and Senate on ...

A Shift In The Land Of Steady Politics? - Hartford Courant
A new Quinnipiac poll paints Connecticut as a very blue state about to go Democratic in a very big way. Read it with caution. Numbers don't lie, but they don't exactly tell the truth, either — not the whole truth, anyway. Among the ideological shut ...

Political Campaigns - Chicago Tribune
Two months ago, NAACP board member Alice Huffman played a pivotal role in a Democratic National Committee meeting that paved the way for Sen. Barack Obama to clinch the party's presidential nomination. Obama's historic victory - the first for a black ...

Political Junkie: Playing the 'Gender Card'? - NPR News
Talk more about gender and politics on "Blog of the Nation" Talk of the Nation , November 7, 2007 · During a recent debate, Sen. Hillary Clinton faced tough questioning from her fellow Democratic presidential candidates. Clinton's campaign alleged ...

Late TV listings - Boston Globe
Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace An all-star panel that includes Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard, Mara Liasson and Juan Williams of National Public Radio. 10 a.m. (25) This Week With George Stephanopoulos Topic: Obama vice ...

1987: David Owen resigns as leader of SDP - BBC News
The leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Dr David Owen, has resigned after members of his party voted to merge with the Liberals. In his resignation statement, issued within an hour of the result of the vote being announced, Dr Owen said: "We ...