Boston Globe: Politics

Elizabeth Warren was a fresh-faced 29-year-old who had just finished a grueling day of interviews for her first major job in academia when her prospective colleagues, all men, took her to dinner at a Houston steakhouse.

In Washington, the race between Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren is a key battle in a partisan war over who controls the Senate. But in the world of Brown’s television commercials, his website, and his speeches, the senator’s political party is often barely visible.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Paul Ryan’s was a rise so swift and steady it seems scripted: congressional aide, elected to the US House at 28 years old, House Budget Committee chairman, prominent intellect of the GOP, proponent of a controversial plan to cut the deficit and, on Saturday, at just 42 years, named by Mitt Romney as the prospective vice presidential candidate.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate, according to a Republican with knowledge of the development.

A Chinese company’s preliminary agreement to invest in A123 Systems Inc.

A trove of documents housed in a secure vault at the John F. Kennedy Library has long been described as Robert F. Kennedy’s private papers.

Congress' performance matches its approval rating -- abysmal. Lawmakers headed home for a five-week break with a lengthy list of uncompleted work and little to show for the past year and a half except an eye-popping amount of dissatisfaction: Nearly 80 percent of Americans are unhappy with them.

Mitt Romney praised aspects of the Israeli health care system while speaking to a group of donors on his foreign trip, comments that raised eyebrows in the United States because Israel has the type of government-run health care system that Romney has been strenuously running against in his presidential campaign.

Republicans controlling the House have passed a bill to extend tax cuts due to expire Dec.

Former President Bill Clinton will have a marquee role in this summer's Democratic National Convention, where he will make a forceful case for President Barack Obama's re-election and his economic vision for the country, several Obama campaign and Democratic party officials said Sunday.

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