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There are a lot of reasons — incumbents raise more and get reelected more, for one — but the money can’t hurt.


The Humvees we sent to protect Iraqis against terrorist bombings have now become terrorist bombs themselves.


The individual mandate is the least popular and most controversial part of Obamacare — and it’s a policy that’s absolutely necessary to making the health reform law work.


The effect of endorsements on election results is modest, but real.


How fears of disease change people’s politics.


Plus bonus photo of Kim inspecting a pink teacup.


Jorge R. Gutierrez won a student Emmy in 2001 for Carmelo.


The nurse will be released from the hospital, but she’ll remain under a mandatory quarantine order until she leaves New Jersey.


Polls favor them in most key races, but Georgia could be a complication.


Many of the women who travel to the UAE to become domestic workers are horribly abused by their employers and recruiting agents.


A few days before Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989, another country star snagged his first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Country chart.


If students started earning college credits earlier, maybe everybody would be better off.


New ads try to convince young voters to vote libertarian.


A deadly disease not only keeps people from work because of illness; it keeps people from investing in other countries


Quarantines may sound nice, but they involve mistreatment of heroic health workers.