Presidential campaigns, with their boiler-room pressure, news media scrutiny and organizational challenges, have always functioned as something of a dress rehearsal for the White House. How do the candidates make tough decisions? Are they willing to listen to opposing points of view? Do they micromanage? ...more

November 24, 2007

Venezuela's government could detain citizens without charges and censor the news media if President Hugo Chavez declares a state of emergency under a draft constitutional amendment adopted Thursday. ...more

October 26, 2007

The Kremlin, its political consultants and state-controlled news media have found an American to admire: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ...more

October 19, 2007

The House overwhelmingly passed federal protections for journalists pressured to reveal confidential sources Tuesday, as lawmakers from both parties backed legislation that advocates for the news media have sought for a generation. ...more

October 17, 2007

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's abrupt announcement on Wednesday afternoon that he would resign upset what was to have been an orderly end to the nationalist leader's scandal- and gaffe-prone government. The resignation threw Japan's tense political situation into further disarray. ...more

September 13, 2007