Ronald Brownstein

"I hope they will make a mini-deal," the former president said when asked about Washington's budget negotiations at the Aspen Ideas Festival.SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images.Aspen, Colo.--Former President Bill Clinton Saturday night urged President Obama not to "blink" at Republican demands to exclude revenue increases from any agreement to extend the government's debt ceiling. If Republicans maintain their opposition to revenue increases, Clinton said, Obama should… More »

He's not running yet, but his top political adviser tells National Journal how the Texas governor would campaign if he enters the race More »

A deal would be the start, not the end, of an uphill climb to control federal entitlement spending More »

The House and governors have written the issue script for the primary, making questions of identity and electability more important More »

Why millennials can't start their careers and baby boomers can't end theirs. More »

College-educated women, working-class men, and Hispanics are coming back to the president More »

Eclipsed by demographics, new polling shows that this voting bloc feels increasingly alienated More »

Top presidential contenders are asking voters to excuse or ignore the stances they held a few years ago More »

The former governor is Mormon, used to be pro-choice, and could find himself even more vulnerable with Mike Huckabee out of the race More »

After ordering the raid the killed al Qaeda's leader, the commander in chief gets to start over More »

Democrats and Republicans both want to rein in federal spending. To do it, they'd revamp health care in very different ways. More »

The journalistic giant was remembered in Washington Tuesday along with the age of reporting More »

How rising minority populations can reshape U.S. politics and carry Obama to victory in 2012 More »

More like Dwight Eisenhower than John Kennedy, the president leads outside the limelight More »

In Republicans' most fragmented primary since 1940, presidential hopefuls are just along for the ride More »

Is the solution to strip benefits from public workers, or to save private-sector 401(k) plans? More »

Republican governors are leading a frontal assault on President Obama's agenda More »

Reframing his presidency on Tuesday night, Obama broke away from the struggles that marked his first two years in office More »

New data show two broad trends: the exodus of whites from the Democratic Party and America's divergent views along racial lines More »

Americans no longer think the U.S. economy is No. 1, a new Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll shows More »