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The Obama administration is backing the transition from one prime minister to another according to the Iraq Constitution. That is the exact opposite of regime change.

If Hillary Clinton is going to claim her time as secretary of State as an argument in her favor for a presidential run in 2016, then she is going to have a hard time criticizing the administration for policies that she played a role in developing.

Presidential Power's Sunday Shorts take on why the Iraq air strike campaign might last for a while, the polling behind the lawsuit against Obama, and Watergate.

The economy is improving, but President Obama hasn't seen any correlative tick upward in his approval ratings yet. A foreign policy shadow could be one reason.

It's almost unprecedented for one party to hold the White House for four consecutive terms, but with Hillary Clinton's presumed candidacy, it's a possibility. The trend lines aren't favorable for Republicans, at any rate.

Until Iraq gets its political house in order, it's unclear what US air strikes against Islamic State militants will achieve.

Richard Nixon could have hired a White House historian or installed a manually operating taping system. Instead, he opted for a voice-activated system. 'I had decided that my administration would be the best chronicled in history,' he wrote in his memoirs. And it was.

While a Virginia medical examiner classified the death of former White House Press Secretary James Brady a homicide, proving a case in court linking Monday's death with a shooting more than 33 years ago is a reach.

In 1972, most Americans said that they trusted government always or most of the time, but the Watergate scandal drove trust in government down to 36 percent. Now, 40 years after Watergate, it's at 13 percent.

President Obama has been reluctant to get involved in Iraq again, but conflicts of this kind have a way of taking on a life of their own. At the very least, this is unlikely to be a short engagement.

Michelle Obama's push to stop kids from eating snacks and buying sugary drinks will be realized when kids go back to school. It risks being seen as government intrusion.

Is there a relationship between how people view Bill Clinton and how they view Hillary? One data set suggests "yes," and that the relationship is significant.

Yes, it looks like the Republican establishment will successfully beat back the tea party in every Senate race this cycle. But it has had to veer far to the right to do it.

A new study shows that the kind of fraud that voter IDs can stop is extraordinarily rare, suggesting that the burden such laws put on the poor, elderly, and minorities might be worse than the actual problem.

In the Kansas Republican primary Tuesday, two members of the House faced challenges from the center while Sen. Pat Roberts faced a challenge from the right. All survived. Now, it's the governor's turn to worry.

Honest efforts to rein in backroom deals and money in politics have had unintended consequences, making governing harder and empowering the political extremes.

Once upon a time, Republicans would use social issues like gay marriage and abortion to drive voter turnout and attack Democrats. But that dynamic is shifting.

An undocumented immigrant who was brought to the US as a child and qualifies for Obama's deferred deportation program confronted immigration hardliner Rep. Steve King. The video highlights a key point of the illegal immigration debate.

Sen. Rand Paul says 'politicians get in the way of most answers.' But autism provides a compelling counterpoint. The federal government provides the vast majority of research money as well as crucial services and legal protections.

House Republicans' hard line on immigration certainly plays well to the base, but it points to potentially significant problems ahead for the 2016 presidential election.