In a Donald Trump-led GOP, Republicans say the word "moderate" has less meaning. Former Cranston, Rhode Island Mayor Allen Fung, a Republican, is running a strong campaign in a House district ...

News outlets trot out the term every time Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) make headlines: “moderates.” Usually, these lawmakers are rating coverage and earning the moniker for ...

Oct. 3—Grady Stumbo, an eastern Kentucky politician, used to say that the only things in the middle of the road were yellow stripes and dead polecats. It's wasn't original with him. But it sounded ...

A recent article in the American Prospect was titled “Stop Calling Manchin et al. Moderates.” It unwittingly echoes a post-9/11 political debate, when it had become a journalistic cliche to refer to ...

While Allan Fung, a former mayor, is a Republican who embraces the word “moderate” in his competitive House race in Rhode Island, many in his party aren’t a fan of the label. “They don’t want the word ...

Those are the words the Federal Reserve is still using to describe the U.S. recovery, four years after the recession officially ended. “Overall economic activity increased at a modest to moderate pace ...