Bob Secter

The issue: Shifting the tax burden and what that does to -- or for -- "Joe the plumber." Why this was a key moment: The unquestioned star of the debate...

Barack Obama and John McCain both rate energy conservation and domestic production a top priority, but the agreement largely ends there. "Drill, baby, drill" is the unofficial slogan of McCain's...

Priorities 1. Asked to set priorities for tackling critical domestic problems, Sen. Barack Obama said he would make energy independence job No. 1 while pegging health-care reform as his second...

Q. What was the Keating Five scandal? A. The current Wall Street meltdown had its prequel two decades ago when hundreds of savings and loans went belly up amid a...

Sarah Palin may be the heroine of the religious right, but Rev. Gene Straatmeyer vividly recalls a public run-in he once had with the now Republican vice presidential candidate over...

Barack Obama's campaign sought to make the case Saturday that the Democratic presidential candidate had proved his national security bona fides during Friday's debate, claiming that John McCain had shown...

Beyond the pomp and partisanship, the milestones were profound. A black man for the first time accepted a major party's nomination for president in a nation that fought a civil...

Nation, many of you have heard about the satirically pompous late-night TV comedian who claims that politicians who brave an appearance on his show will be swaddled in electoral mojo....

One paramount lesson to take away from the failed child pornography prosecution of R&B star R. Kelly is this: It's hard to win a conviction when the alleged victim not...

March 3: Jury selection begins. March 6: Opening statements are held. March 7: Testimony begins with the first prosecution witnesses immediately bringing the case inside the Blagojevich administration, describing how...