President Vladimir V. Putin’s choices for his Kremlin administration will be the political heavyweights who have accompanied him for more than a decade.

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Familiar Confidants Chosen for Kremlin Posts

Can Cameron and Hollande bridge the political gulf between them?

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Analysis: Cameron and Hollande

European markets suffer a nervous session with investors unsettled by a downgrade for Spanish banks and the political crisis in Greece.

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Market jitters over eurozone woes

Barack Obama’s mother died on Nov. 7, 1995, a few weeks before her 53rd birthday. She was less than two years older than the president is now. Her death from uterine cancer came between two key events in her son’s life. Four months earlier “Dreams From My Father” had been published; it seemed destined to drown unnoticed in the deep ocean of books. One year later Obama won his first election, to the Illinois state Senate, the initial stop on his swift journey to the White House that, along the way, brought a mass audience to that forgotten memoir, which in its best-selling revival defined his political image and provided him with lifelong financial security. Read full article > >

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Obama is his mother’s son

The primary loss for the longest-serving GOP senator is the latest blow to the political center in the polarized chamber. Nearly half a dozen moderate senators are retiring.

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Lugar’s loss polarizes U.S. Senate

How Twitter’s hashtag is helping shape the political debate

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Twitter hashtag’s political power

Mexican migration to the United States may have stalled, as a new study shows, but the political and social debates over immigrants living in the United States aren't going anywhere, experts say.

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Mexican migration slows, not debate

Mitt Romney may be inclined to start moving to the political center, but the Obama campaign would much rather keep him in the conservative territory he staked out in the Republican primary race.

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Campaign Memo: Campaign Memo: In Strategy Shift, Obama Team Attacks Romney From the Left

Typically when a presidential candidate wraps up his party's nomination after months of reaching out to base voters in the primaries, the question becomes whether he can appeal to the political center for the general election.

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Romney faces challenge rallying right

Papers reflect on the political week that was

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Papers assess by-election upset

It is easy to understand why last week’s Etch a Sketch moment was described as the perfect metaphor for a presidential candidate who has struggled to answer the question of who he is and what he believes. It was a gaffe that fed a stereotype that shapes the political image of Mitt Romney. Read full article > >

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Can Mitt Romney hit the reset button on presidential campaign?

The combination of lessons learned since the selection of Sarah Palin, the high stakes of the general election and the pervasiveness of the political media are likely to set a new standard for vetting a running mate this year.

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On Politics: Vetting a Running Mate in a Post-Palin World

Immediately after the news broke this morning that former Florida governor Jeb Bush had decided to get off the presidential sidelines and endorse former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney , the political world wondered just one thing: Where does this fit in the Fix Endorsement Hierarchy ? Read full article > >

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Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney and the Fix endorsement hierarchy

The man who is expected to become China’s next president will arrive in Washington on Monday for a visit crucial to his political ascension and also to U.S. hopes for easing the mounting tensions between two of the world’s most powerful nations. Read full article > >

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China’s president-in-waiting heads to Washington for a visit crucial to both nations

Mohammed Waheed Hassan said he would support an independent investigation into the political turmoil that led to the resignation of his predecessor.

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New President of Maldives Meets With U.S. Envoy