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The Washington Post, in the course of reporting on an Afghanistan war game conducted by Defense Department planners, notes that the Obama administration has

For a civic group that bristles at charges of generating even the most suggestive air of violence, the 9.12 Project sure likes its handguns. Around the country,

Dear Ms. Cheney, I don’t know if you saw ’Meet The Press’ this morning, but a general you may have heard of named David Petraeus -- he’s the commander of

Here’s a good game for a rainy Sunday. Several credit card companies have launched a new Website designed to help struggling card users manage their debts

A study by an Oregon fair-housing audit firm detailing widespread housing discrimination in Portland has compelled Oregon lawmakers to put pressure on the state

The coal industry just lost another one. Alliant Energy announced it is canceling a proposed $1.8 billion power plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. Despite new

When the Republican National Committee launched the new version of GOP.com, Zachary Roth noticed that Michael Zak, an author and speaker who argues that the

<p>Marty Lederman has a <a href="http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/01/real-cia-tapes-scandal-that-everyone-is.html">typically excellent

Here’s some good news for the long-term unemployed poised to exhaust their jobless benefits in the midst of Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) one-man stand against a

As Spencer noted earlier, detainee advocates like the ACLU are hailing President Obama’s decision to seek a 120-day stay of the military commissions proceedings

It comes as no surprise that the hedge funds in control of Chrysler’s debt are lashing out at President Obama for fingering them yesterday as the primary reason

An interesting, albeit limited, bill passed the House yesterday to change part of immigration law to recognize proxy marriages involving military service

The New York Times today does a nice job pointing out some of the limitations of the co-op coverage model being pushed by Gang of Six member Sen. Kent Conrad

If you feel like you’re trying to muddle through absorbing and understanding what happened on Wall Street, and why we are in the mess we’re in, this short video

The government’s state secrets argument was back in full force yesterday, this time being made by the Justice Department before the Ninth Circuit Court of

This morning, it was President Obama blaming Massey Energy (among others) for not doing more to prevent last week’s deadly mining blast in West Virginia. This

If it’s in The Washington Independent two weeks ago, you can read it on MSNBC’s website today.

Here’s The Washington Post’s idea of debate on AIG: The leadoff contributor to the op-ed page’s ’Topic A section is former AIG CEO Maurice Greenberg, who

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