It’s not every day that a politician behaves like a jerk in front of a reporter.

Marco Rubio takes his first steps toward 2016 by telling GQ that he’s “not a scientist”

Former Utah Governor and Romney transition team leader Mike Leavitt tells TIME about the process of planning a Romney presidency

In a private call with donors, Romney attempts to explain why he failed to unseat Barack Obama

While there’s no chance that the spate of secessionist rhetoric will dissolve the union, there is a seamy aspect to the surge in petitions. Little concrete information is known about most of the signatories, and southern nationalists have rallied around the idea.

Who’s up and who’s down after the arduous, expensive ordeal that was 2012.

(WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) — Firebrand Republican Rep. Allen West was defeated by Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy, according to the state’s vote count Saturday, but the incumbent won’t concede.

(ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) — President Barack Obama was declared the winner of Florida’s 29 electoral votes Saturday, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin that narrowly avoided an automatic recount that would have brought back memories of 2000.

No matter the outcome, Obama had already clinched re-election and now has 332 elec …

General David Petraeus announced today that he has resigned as head of the CIA, citing an extramarital affair. 

Sure, they failed to take the White House or the Senate. And, yes, they lost seats in the House. But Republicans weren’t total losers on Nov. 6.

The most surprising trend on Election Day was Democratic Senate victories in bloodred states.