Sherrod Brown

The WaPo this weekend has an interesting story tracing Barack Obama's path to the Democratic presidential nomination back to John Mercer Langston, by most accounts the first black man to hold elective office when he was voted in as a township clerk in...

by Jill Zuckman Jim Wasser, an electrician from Kankakee, Ill., stands defiantly, hands on hips, wearing a bright orange International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers T-shirt with a message from the AFL-CIO to 400,000 of its union members in key swing.....

by Jim Tankersley ST. PAUL - Is Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin the victim of sexism - or at the very least, a double standard - from the press and her political opponents? That's the charge that many Republicans, and......

by Jill Zuckman CHILLICOTHE, Ohio - The southeastern corner of this political showdown state, with its heavily Appalachian flavor is a place where presidential candidates need to convince voters that they can be trusted. Folks living here among the...

by James Oliphant Another Senate Republican is hanging them up. Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio announced to day that he will not seek reelection in 2010. His retirement comes on the heels of the announcement last week from Sen. Christopher......

by James Oliphant Flip to the Senate channel on C-SPAN tonight and you are likely to see an empty chamber. There is probably more arresting television to be found. Technically, the body is still voting on the economic stimulus package,......

by Mark Silva Republicans, yes. Democrats, no. It's a volatile mix for a health-care overhaul that the White House is seeking. Alll eyes may be on the Senate Finance Committee today, but the outcome of the health-care overhaul in the......

by Mark Silva and updated again at 9:05 pm EST President Barack Obama, swiftly deploying an added 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan, told a national television audience tonight that Americans "have no interest in fighting an endless war'' and promised.......

by Mark Silva and updated with speech Ohio may serve as President Barack Obama's "Main Street'' today, as he meets with workers, touts alternative energy as a job-creating engine and holds a town-hall styled session in Lorain County, but these......

In 2008, Democratic voters had their pick of many candidates for president — from Hillary Clinton to John Edwards to Joe Biden. Why did they choose Barack Obama? After all, he had less experience in office than many of his rivals. He was not as...

One of the oft-repeated justifications for why Wall Street must be regulated by Wall Streeters is that what goes on there is both so complex and so essential that only those who have been part of it can be trusted to oversee it. This argument is bunk, of...

No doubt who the big winners were on November 6. Two years ago, he was considered toast. But President Obama scored a decisive victory: winning the popular vote by three and a half million, racking up a 126 margin in the Electoral College, locking up...