At a union hall in Detroit packed with 800 members of the AFL-CIO and their families, Democratic presidential candidate and New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton promises to break the mold on trade...

Last month -- though it feels as if it were last year -- a large Snowman (depicted below) got to ask the Democratic presidential candidates a question about global warming...

Although last year’s midterm elections ended in a historic Democratic take-back of Congress, party leaders and grass-roots supporters alike have acknowledged that the gains owed more to public unhappiness with the Iraq war and the presidency of George W. Bush than with any bold new policies advanced by the Democrats...

Under the heading “The end of a U.S.-centric world?” the PostGlobal section of The Washington Post website recently declared that “U.S. influence is in steep decline..."