The author, Cameron Smith, is a columnist for the USA TODAY Network Tennessee. He is a former political attorney for congressional Republicans.

The American political system works. Of course it works. That’s what a system — a thing that once set up keeps running — does ...

Voters may shake it off when celebrities endorse presidential candidates – but sometimes it makes the politicians look like ...

With the temporary pause of the programs, the future of more than a million migrants — who have formed families and ...

Lubbock County Commissioners to discuss game room ordinance today, Senator Ted Cruz and Rep. Colin Allred will face off in a ...

There are 33 US Senate seats up for regular election, as well as all 435 US House seats and 11 gubernatorial offices. These ...

Key U.S. Senate races remain close three weeks ahead of Election Day as Republicans try to flip the upper chamber.

Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn is refusing to take the stage against Democratic opponent, state Rep. Gloria Johnson, ...

October polling by a GOP super PAC found Cruz only 1 point ahead of his Democratic challenger, Representative Colin Allred..

Republican hardliner and Texas Senator Ted Cruz could screw up his party’s chance of flipping the Senate, the GOP super PAC ...

Ted Cruz is lying again, but now he’s lying about our children. I’m a dad. I’m also a Christian,” Allred said on camera.

Skywriting messages I wish I could take back. I turned thirty so you don’t have to . Obituaries my mother wrote for me while ...