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To build on Aaron’s post, the most important -- and resonant -- portion of the president’s remarks on winning the Nobel Peace Prize came when he said who he

Breaking news from Reuters: An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in

I’m Mary Kane, and you might be surprised to find someone like me here. I started in journalism straight out of school, in 1983, at United Press

As the bill heads to conference committee, consumer advocates have identified loopholes and weak points where a merged bill could be watered down.

Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman and current Democratic contender for governor of Virginia, tried to pay off Ralph Nader, to keep

Immigrants’ advocates have been complaining for months now that the Obama administration is cracking down hard on illegal immigration while doing nothing to

One of the perks of political rock star-dom is that you get to write pretty much whatever you want and the nation’s leading newspapers will publish it. Take

Yesterday, radical anti-abortion rights group Operation Rescue sent out a press release announcing its “ Summer of Mercy 2.0 ” in Germantown, Maryland. # The last “Summer of Mercy,” took place twenty years ago in Wichita, Kansas, where work done by anti-abortion rights groups culminated in the shooting of abortion-provider George Tiller

The Minnesota Independent’s Andy Birkey reports that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has thrown her support behind a Nov. 9 fundraiser in St. Paul for the

Political reporters in Washington are preparing for a late night at work sifting through the National Archives’ just-released trove of memos and correspondence

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) announced today that he will vote against Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan when she comes up for a vote by the full Senate the

After bloggers criticized Brookings’ Michael O’Hanlon for cooking up his own private benchmarks for Iraqi political progress, he elaborated on Brookings’

TransCanada, owners of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, have agreed to reroute the pipeline to avoid the Nebraska Sandhills, a particularly sensitive ecosystem.

That was quite an image, seeing Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai announce that he’ll accept a runoff election. Well, not just that, but seeing him flanked by

McCain says Obama’s not listening to his generals. Overexposure? Most Americans think they’re seeing about the right amount of Obama. Obama may defy

Don’t worry America, Sweden is with you in Afghanistan. The surge is on. Sweden wants to send more troops to Afghanistan after an assessment by the Armed

The Obama administration is expected to appoint Alan Bersin, a former U.S. Attorney in San Diego, to be its new border czar. The position will focus on

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