Hillary Clinton’s confirmation hearing for Secretary of State. We’ll listen in to proceedings and talk about a new day in U.S. foreign policy.

Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State? The right choice? We’ll look at the potential implications for Obama’s foreign policy and the presidency.

There was history made yesterday in the Democratic Party, the first African American to claim a major party’s presidential nomination: Barack Obama — before a rapturous crowd in Minnesota — claiming the prize after an epic campaign.
And there was mystery in the Democratic Party: Hillary Clinton, watching the same last primary results come in from [...]

There are just two more states — one more day — in the Democrats’ marathon primary battle. South Dakota and Montana, tomorrow — and that’s it for primary voting.
But the last chapter may already have been written in Washington this weekend, when the Democrats’ Rules Committee sat down to vote on how to treat the [...]

In the New Deal era, the Democrats owned the white working class. In the Civil Rights era, they lost them. Not all, of course, but enough to give Republicans win after big win.
This year, with economic challenges front and center again, the math could change. But in West Virginia and North Carolina, in Kentucky and [...]

Hillary Clinton won in a romp in West Virginia, and says she will go on. Barack Obama’s camp points to the Democratic primary numbers and says he’s got it sewn up.
Meanwhile, John McCain just keeps campaigning.
Nationally, Republicans face some daunting realities and poll numbers heading toward November. But few deny John McCain’s got a real [...]

Barack Obama stepped out of the worst weeks of his campaign yesterday and turned in a big win in North Carolina.
Hillary Clinton took those same weeks, and a stretch of high Clinton camp spirits, and turned in a squeaker victory — a two-point win — in Indiana.
Everybody’s vowing to battle on, but the raw numbers [...]

It ain’t over — again. Hillary Clinton pulls out a win in Pennsylvania and sends Barack Obama and superdelegates a double-digit message: Don’t count me out.
And so, the battle for the Democratic nomination goes on, and on, and on, and on. In two weeks, primaries in Indiana and North Carolina.
On paper, the math and money [...]

Between the war and the economy, it looked like a slam-dunk year for Democrats and the White House. It may still be.
But the long-slog trench warfare between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has some Democrats scared that it’s slipping away. That John McCain is making hay while the Dems duke it out.
Bill Clinton now says, [...]

At 8:30 last night, Barack Obama, in San Antonio, called John McCain, in Dallas, to congratulate the man who last night clinched the GOP nomination, to say he looked forward to running against him. And maybe Obama will.
But up in Columbus, Ohio, one Hillary Clinton was preparing a speech of her own. Before the night [...]

Twenty Democratic debates, and last night, the last debate before primaries next Tuesday that could decide the Democrats’ competition. Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama were gladiators once more in a test of ideas, and integrity, and attitude.
Clinton, fierce and focused, was a commanding presence fighting for the lead she has lost. Obama, cool [...]

A week from today, it could be over for Hillary Clinton. She may roar back in Texas and Ohio. But if she doesn’t, we may be watching the last week of the strongest bid in history by a woman for the White House.
And we’re pausing today to ask what role gender — and maybe sexism [...]

And you thought the Clinton-Obama horse race was already hot — the candidates virtually tied for votes and delegates. Now the party is locked in a behind-the-scenes horse race for the votes of superdelegates.
Those are the 795 party elites — free agents — whose votes at the Democratic convention this summer will not necessarily be [...]

Bill Clinton started out low-key in Hillary Clinton’s campaign — but no more. As Hillary and Barack Obama have gone to the mat in the heat of the primaries, the former President Clinton is all over this race — up to his elbows in the fight, throwing real punches.
Obama’s Iraq message? A “fairy tale.” A [...]

The polls still suggest that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for president. She’s up by 23 points nationally, by 6 in Iowa, by 13 in New Hampshire, by 15 in South Carolina.
Yet, after a shaky performance — her first — in the last debate, pundits are pronouncing her vulnerable. Once seen as inevitable, [...]

Hillary Clinton got run over by health care reform politics fourteen years ago. Trounced by drug companies and insurers, by Harry and Louise, by ordinary Americans afraid she would limit their health care choices.
Now, years have passed, nearly 50 million Americans are uninsured, millions more live in fear of losing coverage — and Hillary is [...]