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The current Congress has worked just as many days as its legislative predecessors. It just has a lot less to show for it.

I wonder if black people would be still in the fields picking cotton today if the 13th Amendment -- the one abolishing slavery -- was placed on the ballot back in 1865.

Ex-Rep. Artur Davis explains to CNN's Wolf Blitzer why he left the Democratic Party and plans to vote for Mitt Romney.

President Barack Obama said Monday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the conflict in Syria and "agreed that we need to see a cessation of the violence, that a political process has to be created to prevent civil war."

Brett McGurk, President Obama's pick to be ambassador to Iraq, has withdrawn from consideration following revelations about questionable conduct, an administration official said Monday.

Attorney General Eric Holder agreed Monday to meet with the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, but sought to add top congressional Democrats in the latest step of a showdown over the panel's push for more Department of Justice documents on the botched Fast and Furious gun-running sting operation.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed the results of the Greek election as he prepared to join other world leaders at a summit aimed at boosting a sluggish global economic recovery.

President Barack Obama received praise Monday from Mexico's president for the decision last week to stop deporting some young illegal immigrants.

Brianna Keilar on President Obama's meeting with Russia's Putin on Iran and stimulating struggling global economies.

A new biography of Pres. Obama is causing quite a stir, and Buzzfeed Editor in Chief Ben Smith breaks down how and why.

In a scene unfolding in many Latino communities throughout the country, the graduation ceremony at Garcia High School in Chicago was especially celebratory Saturday: 20% of the graduating seniors are illegal immigrants who can now put their education to use with work permits authorized by President Obama's new immigration rules.

A few ill-chosen words can have a devastating effect on a presidential campaign, says Julian Zelizer.

Romney Campaign's Tim Pawlenty on if President Obama's immigration policy announcement was timed for the election.

Nicholas Benton gave up a dream of running for the White House when he came out, but it's possible to imagine a gay president one day

White House Senior Adviser, David Plouffe. weighs in on Obama's immigration change and says it is not a "political move."

In the Supreme Court, five majority votes among the nine members are enough to fundamentally change lives and legacies.

The Supreme Court is set to release within a few days its much-anticipated rulings on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the comprehensive health care law enacted two years ago.

The U.S. Supreme Court will rule this month on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act , the health-care reform law that President Obama had signed in March 2010. Here's a look at key moments in the law's history:

Mitt Romney worshiped his father. Barack Obama barely knew his.

The Supreme Court in coming days will issue perhaps as many as four separate opinions on the constitutionality of the health care law.