Politics

The link between U.S. military service and running for office is as old as the republic itself. It started with George Washington, who famously wrote that, "When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen." During the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, hundreds of thousands of veterans have ...

The conventions are over, but the political banter won't end for months. Presidential elections stir up a lot of emotions, whether you side with the "red," the "blue" or if you consider yourself somewhere in the middle. If you're fired up, it's natural that you may want to talk politics at work. However, you ...

By Kaitlin Madden At work, there are some topics of conversation that need to be approached cautiously, if at all. Your definitive list of "reasons why your boss sucks," your religious beliefs and your feelings about "The Real Housewives," for example, are all probably better left off of the conversation ...

What kind of person can make the successful jump from another career into the wild-and-woolly world of political campaigns? Almost anyone, says John Philips, CEO of Aristotle, Inc, a Washington DC-based political consulting firm. Phillips says that people typically join political campaigns for one of three ...

In America, it's always an election year: Somewhere right now, someone is running or about to launch a political campaign. As a citizen, your life will be significantly impacted by these campaigns in many unseen ways -- through bills passed, laws enacted, policies backed or dropped. But as a job-seeker, your ...