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At a conference on leadership in counterinsurgency at the National Press Club sponsored by Marine Corps University, Eliot Cohen, the respected Johns Hopkins

The conservative GOP representative from California, who probably did more to arm the Mujahideen than anyone else in Congress, appeared on MSNBC’s The Ed Show

One week after a coalition of minority and voting rights groups asked the U.S. Department of Justice to block Texas’ new voter ID law, federal officials asked

Looks like Patrick Cockburn’s story caused a lot of shpilkis in Baghdad. Amb. Crocker is trying to knock it down: The United States is not seeking permanent

At the risk of sounding obsessive, look at how the National Security Strategy entrenches indefinite detention without charge. The increased risk of terrorism

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- During today’s rally at the University of Maryland, President Obama tailored his health care message to appeal to a younger crowd that has

As House Democrats head home to their districts, they won’t be alone. Leadership has supplied them with four pocket cards to help them stay on message: The

In a new twist to the Colorado GOP gubernatorial primary taking place on August 10, an outside group funded by Democrats and Democratic supporters has booked

Fake Rep. Jack Kimble tricks the Washington Post. Rick Santorum has a Google problem. Republicans are now likely to take the House. Robert Byrd’s

As you’ve probably read this morning, the Pakistani Taliban executed a complex attack -- using suicide car bombers and gunmen -- on the American consulate in

Rep. Keith Ellison called for the resignation of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs after he said the “professional left” would only be satisfied with

It’s no news that Republicans are up in arms over the recent White House decision to bar insurance companies from encouraging their customers to oppose the

Bayh is the new Lieberman; Lieberman is a born-again liberal. FiveThirtyEight breaks down voting shifts in the Senate. Dems circulate talking points to rebut

Just as a heads up, tonight the TWI staff will be filing dispatches from around the country. We have three reporters in Arizona keeping us updated on the McCain

Today, the Senate approved a state aid bill providing $26.1 billion in funding for cash-strapped local governments to use for Medicaid and teachers’ jobs. The

Republican lawmakers, at least in Colorado, are fond of pointing to America’s vast domestic fossil fuel reserves as a largely untapped means of ending the nation’s dependency on overseas energy imports.

President Obama’s 2012 campaign has a new senior adviser — a former lobbyist for the company pushing the Keystone XL pipeline, who also lobbied for Comcast throughout the period that the media conglomerate was seeking approval for its merger with NBC-Universal. The campaign hired Broderick Johnson of the lobbying firm Bryan Cave LLP this week. According to U.S.

A recent survey from Public Policy Polling shows Rep. Thad McCotter (R-Livonia) has very little support in his long-shot run for president, even in his home

Breaking news from The Washington Post: The U.S. ambassador in Kabul sent two classified cables to Washington in the last week expressing deep concerns about