Jim Tankersley

The rough days of the presidential race are behind Rahm Emanuel. The Chicago congressman was famously torn in the primaries between longtime friend Barack Obama and longtime friend Hillary Clinton,...

by Jim Tankersley Borrowing a page from the GOP playbook, 10 House Democrats marked Tax Day this morning by criticizing their least-favorite government spending program: the Iraq War. Republicans have...

by Jim Tankersley The United States traded $18 billion in goods and services with Colombia last year, a tiny slice of the nearly $4 trillion it traded with the rest...

by Jim Tankersley Three presidential candidates returned to the Senate yesterday to question Gen. David Petraeus on progress in Iraq. The big surprise wasn't their queries -- Democrats Hillary Clinton...

by Jim Tankersley A pair of Illinois lawmakers are taking vocal roles in the debate over the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which President Bush submitted to Congress this week. In...

by Jim Tankersley Money is the root of all (political) evil. Please send more of it. That's the gist of Hillary Clinton's latest fundraising appeal to supporters. "With 14 days...

by Jim Tankersley Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) wants to steer about $114 million in federal funding to Chicago-area groups and projects, according to a list of "earmark" requests for the...

by Jim Tankersley Mark Penn is out as Hillary Clinton's chief strategist. Penn is a pollster who has guided the campaign's message - and clashed over it with other top...

By Jim Tankersley There's a reason Democrats are confident they'll win the White House this fall: On the issues that matter most, Americans seem to agree with their candidates. There's...

By Jim Tankersley After months of questioning from reporters and prodding from rivals, Hillary and Bill Clinton released their last eight years of income taxes this afternoon. One number pops...