After supporting abortion rights early in his political career, Mitt Romney is working to reinforce his credentials among conservatives.

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Romney’s Path to ‘Pro-Life’ Position on Abortion

Since being elected city comptroller, John C. Liu has given individuals and groups more than 760 official commendations, many of them connected to his political campaign.

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For John C. Liu, New York Comptroller, Commendations Are Commonplace

Roscoe R. Nix, a Montgomery County civil rights leader who used his political influence and confrontational style to draw attention to racial inequities in one of the region’s most affluent jurisdictions, died Jan. 4 at a hospital in Riverdale, Ga. He was 90. Mr. Nix, whose civil rights activism spanned more than half a century, said in a 1980s profile in The Washington Post that his roots in the Deep South defined his outlook on race relations. Read full article > >

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Montgomery County civil rights leader dies

The Air Force took Rick Perry to exotic locales but also cemented his Texas roots and the conservative values that have been central to his political identity.

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The Long Run: For Rick Perry, Air Force Service Broadened and Narrowed Life

The Dalai Lama announced on Thursday he would relinquish his political leadership role in the Tibetan exile government, setting the stage for a new generation.

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Dalai Lama Gives Up Political Role in Tibet

Republican Sen. John Ensign is scheduled to make an announcement about “his political future in the United States Senate,” and it probably won’t be that he’s running for president. Congressional sources say the scandal stricken senator will announce…

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Sen. Ensign to Announce Retirement

Julianne Hing  marshals some evidence to show that black male graduation gap is not an intractable fact of American existence. I’m a fan of these sorts of posts, not because they bring a dose of positivity, but because they bring a dose of realism. When faced with what appears to be a problem impervious to wonkery, it’s very tempting to succumb to the creeping sense that there are no answers.  This is especially true with African-Americans, given that there’s centuries of spectral noise claiming our hidebound inferiority. But what I’ve learned from my present study is that, at any moment in American history you can find smart, honest people lamenting the hopelessness of some social ill. I think back to Abraham Lincoln, who early in his political career thought that white animosity was so intractable that blacks would have to shipped back to Africa.  Lincoln was wrong, but he was neither crazy nor singular. It should be oft-noted that we’ve done a mediocre job of desegregating the country. But it should also be occasionally noted that  if Abraham Lincoln could see America today, his eyes would pop out of his head.

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The Good News

As the the late President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday is observed, historians point out that his political successes, not his persona, have been mythologized over the years.

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Reagan’s myth has grown over time

“Known and Unknown,” former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s memoir of his political career, mixes the policy and the personal.

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In Book, Rumsfeld Recalls Bush’s Early Iraq Focus

Chinese demolition workers tear down the Shanghai studio of controversial artist Ai Weiwei, in a move he says is linked to his political activism.

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China artist’s studio demolished

President Obama’s failure to channel the anxieties of ordinary voters has shaken the faith that many Democrats once had in his political gifts and his team’s political skill.

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Democrats pin losses on Obama’s disconnect