As a freshman state senator from Oklahoma, Andrew Rice ran for the U.S. Senate against a popular incumbent Republican. Read more »

As coordinator of the U.S. State Department’s African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program, she travels all over Africa training military officers to be peacekeepers. Read more »

Reducing smoking rates in large population groups can be daunting. But it's not impossible, says a health planner for Maine's Tobacco Prevention and Control Program. Read more »

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializes in political biography. Her book on Lincoln, Team of Rivals, has been cited by Barack Obama and The Daily Show. Read more »

The director of advance for Barack Obama's juggernaut campaign is now director of advance for the Obama White House. Read more »

A Q&A with a political consultant who works for the firm that represented Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in the 2004 presidential campaign. Read more »

This associate professor of politics at Oglethorpe University talks about the new political landscape and how she engages and inspires her students. Read more »

After graduation this Ralph Bunche scholar from Philadelphia was offered a staff position with a Republican senator. He didn’t take it, but he did eventually end up on Capitol Hill. Read more »

Clarity is key for the Maine legislature's revisor of statutes, who is still pulling all-nighters three decades after doing so as a government major at Colby. Read more »

This ambassador knew he was in for a challenge when he was appointed as America's point man for dealing with Venezuela's predictably unpredictable president, Hugo Chavez. Read more »