Ronald Reagan was known for the jar of jellybeans he kept on his desk in the oval office, offering them to dignitaries and other White House visitors.

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans," he would say, reading importance into whether a person would grab a handful or carefully select a favorite color.

Politicians often speak of the importance of character. Campaign speeches, testimonials, and press releases are full of references to a candidate’s moral stature.

As Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner receives unpleasant polling news, his state party may also face a federal investigation.

I will admit right up front that I don’t have a lot of skin in the game. I’m not Scottish, and my family has not been English for about 15 generations. And I believe that people have a right to control their own political destiny. I'm glad that they are having a vote. But when voters in Scotland go to the polls this Thursday, I really hope that they vote to stay in the United Kingdom. The world, I think, will be a better place if they do.

In the summer of 2010 as a lowly intern on Capitol Hill, I became painfully aware that our government was in some state of shambles. As interns, we were encouraged to attend assemblies where congressmen and women had agreed to speak to the hundreds of interns who flock to our nation’s capitol every year to see first-hand the people who govern the greatest country on earth.

In almost every political argument, there comes a point where it devolves into a common theme: "If you'd just read the Federalist Papers, you'd agree with my position..." I've heard this dozens of times, but what I haven't heard is someone directing attention to the collection of works known as the Antifederalist writings.

Millennials are leading the growing trend of voters who have no party affiliation. A report by Reason-Rupe revealed a majority of Millennials see themselves as independent of political parties.

According to the report, "When first asked, a majority of Millennials (52%) says they are politically independent of either the two major political parties."

It has become the biggest legal battle in the 2014 elections and it seems to be heating up every day. I am talking about the U.S. Senate race in Kansas, where Democrat Chad Taylor is trying to get off the ballot while Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach is fighting to keep him on.

Never let it be said that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) doesn’t know how to make an entrance — or exit.

The onetime Republican presidential candidate arrived late to a homeland security committee hearing on cybersecurity threats in the Dirksen Senate office building slated to begin 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday. The Arizona senior senator slipped in from behind the dais as senior intelligence officials read their testimony to lawmakers and took his seat near Chairman Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.)

Americans are war weary. The nation has been at war since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. We have been involved in Afghanistan, Iraq, and even Libya during its uprising. For the past couple of years, we have even been “secretly” shipping arms to rebels in Syria.

Seth Moulton, in a surprising upset, defeated 9-term incumbent John Tierney in the Democratic primary for the U.S. House seat in Massachusetts Congressional District 6. The primary campaign included 5 Democratic contenders in the district north of Boston.