Edward Lee Pitts | Beyond Tea Partiers, Maryland governor's race shows lifelong Democrats increasingly turned off by incumbents
President Obama ignores the Senate in picking a controversial new medical administrator
After six months of big bills and 'overhauls,' Congress takes a break for our country's birthday
Edward Lee Pitts | Ask retired chaplains, and they'll tell you that ending the military's ban on open homosexuals would have a devastating effect not only on the military but on a vital ministry
Elena Kagan works to debunk certain criticisms, while keeping mum on how she would rule as a justice