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NPR is reporting that Justice David Souter, long rumored to be unhappy in Washington and eager to return home to New Hampshire, will resign from the Supreme

After interviewing Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) a few minutes ago, I think I want to revise and extend my comment this morning that most members of Congress alarmed

Whether Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) is the member of Congress whose National Security Agency-tapped phone calls were referenced in last week’s New York Times

Jesselyn Radack at Daily Kos has a nice roundup of yesterday’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, called and led by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who

Ambassador Peter Galbraith, recently sacked from the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan over his rejection of the mission’s stance on fraud in the Afghan

Protesters demonstrate against Arizona S.B. 1070 (Pic by ProgressOhio, via Flickr ) Former Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce — one of the most recognized architects of that state’s immigration enforcement law S.B

Here’s an interesting choice of analogy from Matt Mackowiak’s op-ed in The Austin American-Statesman, promoting the Tea Parties. The coming revolution is akin

Politicians on both sides of the aisle have eagerly jumped into the debate over Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law, and both sides think they can win on the

With friends like these ... In a Fox News interview, former Vice President Dick Cheney continued to blast away at the Obama administration on everything

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, former President Bill Clinton said that Rep.

It’s on. The Texas congressman is milking Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) attack on his followers and policies for all it’s worth, telling members of his

Yesterday evening, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) withdrew his filing for cloture on the jobs bill, also known as the tax extenders bill or H.R. 4213, currently in

Over the weekend, members of the Occupy Texas movement in cities like Houston and Austin marched to their banks, closed their accounts and put their money in

While students head back to class all around Texas, today marks the first day of school for a unique class of seminary students, all serving lengthy or life

PART TWO In one black-majority, affluent county outside Washington, foreclosures outpace the rest of the region. A long history of mistrust helps explain the problem.

Rep. Betty McCollum and Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar have given measured support for the United States’ military operations in Libya as a part of an international coalition of force in the region.

Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) doesn’t buy into the new Afghanistan strategy. She worries that if Gen. McChrystal doesn’t make the progress he thinks he needs

Conservative Fox News commentator Sean Hannity went after Rep. Keith Ellison in an interview Wednesday evening, criticizing the Minnesota congressman for saying Fox News has contributed to the scapegoating of Muslims.

So reports The Hill, which added up the various proposals under serious consideration as Democrats aim to stem rising unemployment rates (again). Central to the

Most Americans don’t know or get it wrong. Nearly half of Americans say the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- the bank bailout -- passed under President

Here’s Sen. Charles Grasssley (R-Iowa) in June, telling Fox News that requiring people to buy health insurance is a good idea, analogous to states requiring

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