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More on that new provision in the intelligence authorization bill pushing disclosure on the efficacy of torture. The measure was proposed by Sen. Kit Bond

This morning, at the Freedom Summit that kicked off three days of small government Tea Party protests, I broke from a conversation I’d been having with some

Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn has issued a statement in response to the Florida announcement that the state will move its 2012 primary date to Jan.

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As congressional Republicans continue to warn that the Democrats’ health reform plans would put government bureaucrats between you and your doctor, Rep.

My TWI colleague, Ari Melber, raises an interesting point in response to a comment Sen. John McCain made in that interview with the editorial board of The Des

In a statement released Sunday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) became the latest Democrat to try to divorce the party’s health reform

We reported yesterday that the Senate intelligence committee is planning an investigation of the CIA’s interrogation tactics, including a probe of the use of

As a new administration comes to power, the lobbying landscape is changing in Washington. Politico has compiled a valuable field guide to the lobby shops that

David Lazarus at The Los Angeles Times asks a question I’ve been wondering about myself: What are some credit card companies thinking? Lazarus points

A group of prominent economists and historians -- including Nobel Prize-winner Joe Stiglitz and Laura Tyson, the head of the Council of Economic Advisers in the

Supporters of immigration reform are hoping evangelicals will be able to push Republicans to support reform -- but at what cost? In The New York Times, Laurie

Nick Baumann at Mother Jones reminds us that the Obama administration promised earlier this month to do its best to review about 224 more documents that might

With the health reform debate in recent weeks focused largely on GOP opposition to a government-sponsored insurance plan, the implication has been that

Hey readers! Hope you’re all exercising your constitutional rights and hitting the polls today. While you’re there, keep an eye out for anything out of the

West Virginia legislators have reached an 11th-hour compromise to allow a special Senate election Nov. 2 to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D). Gov. Joe

Michael Cohen at Democracy Arsenal thinks it is: f the Iraq war showed us anything it is that untested and unquestioned assumptions can lead to disastrous

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at the press briefing today that Republicans pushing for hearings on the citizenship of American-born children are

Midday on Wednesday Nov. 25, one of the busiest travel times of the year, and journalists stuck in check-in lines at the airport frustratingly checking their

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as