We'll probably find the answer not in the Vatican but in the mirror. Tom Krattenmaker is a Portland-based writer specializing in religion in public life and a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors. He is author of the new book The Evangelicals …

The South Suffolk Conservative Association has refused to re-adopt veteran MP Tim Yeo just days after he cleared his name in a lobbying scandal.

BANGKOK (AP) — Aggressive political protests in the Thai capital turned violent late Saturday with at least one man killed and five wounded by gunshots in street fighting between supporters and opponents of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

After helping to broker an interim nuclear agreement with Iran, Secretary of State John Kerry took to the airwaves to insist that the U.S. still sees eye-to-eye with Israel, despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's scathing dismissal of the …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration Tuesday launched a bid to rein in the use of tax-exempt groups for political campaigning.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Hillary Rodham Clinton privately weighs a second White House run, pieces of the Democratic establishment are beginning to fall into place publicly to help her possible candidacy.

More than a dozen Cabinet ministers are among hundred MPs to take advantage of rules which will now be reviewed by the expenses watchdog.

The former officer from the Royal Irish Regiment believes a man who endured the horrors of Afghanistan could well be vulnerable to making a serious error of judgment.

Let's get right to the tribulation. Fallout from the government shutdown and budget crisis continues to rain down on Republicans. Fallout from the monumentally flawed online rollout of Obamacare continues to rain down on …

… of the legal conservative commitment, theologically conceived, to anchoring political life in the original, infallible meaning of the U.S. Constitution, which is their communion chalice, their Bible, their ark of the covenant.