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Palin has activated a key component of the Republican coalition. But the progressive evangelicals are also in play.

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Brian Beutler flags an interview Fareed Zakaria conducted with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper about contributing additional troops to Afghanistan or

This is deep in the weeds of a political dynamic I can hardly say I fully understand, but how much sense does it make for the exiled son of the shah to give a

Were Eisenhower alive, he’d no doubt be appalled at how thoroughly five-decades worth of policymakers have ignored his famous warning regarding the rise of the

The troubled--but still sold out--National Tea Party Convention got more bad news after Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said the for-profit nature of the event

The Defense Department announced just now that the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division will deploy to Afghanistan in support of the Obama

Jonathan Cohn says what needs to be said about the House Republicans’ new chart mocking the House Democrat-sponsored health care bill: But these charts -- and,

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is floating the idea of opening a special interest office in Tehran. Basically it would handle the non-diplomatic tasks of

President Obama’s widely praised speech last night laid out the goals of his new housing plan and emphasized the government will help responsible homeowners.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D), who won re-election earlier this month, announced yesterday that he hopes to use his next four years in office to pass a

Here’s a fairly disturbing trend. A Gallup poll released yesterday shows a significant jump in the number of Americans who doubt the seriousness of the global

President Obama is speaking in Madison, Wisconsin, this evening in an attempt to reenergize young voters -- a group which voted for him over Sen. John McCain

Syndicate of terror was how Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton described the relationship between al-Qaeda and the various insurgent and terrorist

Over the weekend, Israel evicted two Palestinian families from largely-Palestinian East Jerusalem, a move met with near-universal international condemnation.

How real is the taint of incumbency this year? The New York Times points out today that even Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), among the most conservative lawmakers

Offices, stores and industrial buildings are all facing a perfect storm of increasing vacancies and a lack of capital with which to refinance their debt.

The New York Times reports that the draft U.S.-Iraq deal has U.S. troops pulling out of Iraqi "cities and villages" by June 2009 and combat forces

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