Author: Wall Street Journal

President Bush often has told aides that in the short run, history always gets it wrong. Tonight he is to give his final State of the Union speech, hoping to prove himself right — and begin changing the public’s current …

The Federal Reserve chairman, who normally tries to avoid reacting directly to financial markets, saw global markets in free fall, and yesterday abruptly orchestrated the single deepest cut in the Fed’s main interest-rate target in more than two decades. …

Mitt Romney lost three of the first five big Republican contests and lags behind in most major state and national polls. Yet he is still widely seen as a credible contender for the nomination thanks mainly to one trait: his …

Despite Wall Street’s recent woes, people who work in the financial industry continue to dig deep for political donations to Republican and Democratic candidates for president. Employees of Wall Street firms are the single largest source of campaign cash, …

As the banjo strains of his warm-up act faded to silence, John Edwards took the stage, telling the 200 assembled supporters the truth. “The truth is, I am the underdog,” he said. “Everybody knows it.” Indeed, the question among many …

The contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in South Carolina this Saturday is the next big test in the tight battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. In the long term, the showdown could also upend the way politics are …

With no presidential front-runner in either party after two more state contests over the weekend, Democrats and Republicans are mobilizing for what few have confronted: fighting delegate by delegate instead of state by state, in a battle that could grind …

Mr. Clinton is negotiating to end his relationship with Mr. Burkle’s Yucaipa Cos. as part of a broader effort to protect the presidential campaign of his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, from potential conflicts of interest. Details of Mr. Clinton’s involvement …

Briana Parker, a 17-year-old African-American, drives her Honda every Wednesday from her suburban home here to the local Barack Obama headquarters to work the phone banks. Already accepted at six colleges, the high-school senior finds Mr. Obama an inspiration. “He …

After a surprisingly civil Democratic debate Tuesday night, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are at it again. A Spanish-language radio ad airing in Nevada and paid for by one of Obama’s labor allies calls Clinton “shameful” and says she …

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of thousands of Hispanics who responded to a massive campaign to seek citizenship and vote in 2008 have created a backlog of applications that the government has indicated it can’t process before the election, undercutting the …

Political-campaign financing is supposed to pit rival interest groups against one another. But in this year’s wide-open presidential race, some interesting tugs-of-war are going on within individual companies. Consider Time Warner Inc., whose chairman, Richard Parsons, has sent money to …

Even as the number of unionized workers falls nationwide, labor unions are showing increased power in this topsy-turvy election season. By deploying new strategies to use their money, unions have regained their position as the single-strongest force in elections, outside …

Michael Bloomberg’s prolonged flirtation with the race for the White House is generating interest in executive suites across the country, in a reflection of the business community’s growing dissatisfaction with the major political parties.

The voter-registration office here in Clark County says it received 4,025 new-voter registrations last week and 2,240 the week before that. In a presidential race where new voters are trending toward Barack Obama, and in a state where Saturday’s Democratic …