David A. Graham

Was Arizona's Trent Franks not paying attention when Todd Akin made similar comments last year and paid the price? More »

Appointing Susan Rice as a top aide, attacking Darrell Issa, and fighting for judicial nominees show Obama and his allies don't want to make nice. More »

Will the would-be first lady have more luck winning a cover-girl contest than her husband did in his presidential bid? More »

A must-read account of the House's spring term shows how close he came to losing his job, and how the Book of Samuel rescued him. More »

What do polls show about racial preferences in college admissions? Don't take the overall number at face value. More »

A very young Ron Paul and and even younger Rand Paul pose with the Gipper, wearing some impressive duds. More »

Senator Joe Manchin defends Democrats who opposed background-check legislation, scolds Mike Bloomberg, and says Pat Toomey is still on board. More »

When his daughter was being born, the Virginia Democrat's wife told him to attend a reporter's party. Maybe this is why. More »

The Calgary-born Texas senator is considering a bid for the Oval Office. Let's nip those birther questions in the bud right now. More »

Congress has reached a deal to end furloughs creating airport delays -- without addressing any of the other problems of the sequester. More »

The gathering of Presidents Bush, Bush, Clinton, Carter, and Obama appears to tie for the largest such convention of commanders in chief ever. More »

The powerful Montana senator's decision surprised Democrats. The race to replace him could signal his party's future direction. More »

The South Carolina senator wants Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an American citizen, to be held as an enemy combatant. More »

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a naturalized American citizen, officials say. That shows why it's hard to connect this incident to proposed reforms. More »

It's been a bad week for the South Carolina Republican, who allegedly trespassed at his ex-wife's house and has lost the financial backing of national Republicans. More »

The Senate couldn't break a filibuster on expanded background checks, spelling the de facto end to the post-Newtown legislative push. More »

Steny Hoyer suggests that the attacks provides the latest proof that Congress needs to repeal the sequester. Has he thought this one through? More »

And she's rapping about it, horribly. More »

Track of the Day: Hova answers his political critics as only he can. More »

Teary Times tell-all or no, Weiner's burning lust for the mayor's office is utterly unsurprising -- as is his failure to own up to his failures. More »