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President-elect Obama’s big economic speech today details all the problems the economy faces, and he predicts dire consequences if the government doesn’t act

When I watched Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s questioning of the government’s lawyer in the extraordinary rendition case of Arar v. Ashcroft in

Cliffs Natural Resources, the international mining and natural resources company that began producing biofuel cubes at a factory near Marquette this year, has announced that it is closing its renewaFUEL operation. In a statement this week the company said that it plans to focus resources on iron mining, its core business.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is one of the most understaffed, demoralized agencies in Washington. Some say even top-flight talent won’t be enough to reform it.

The Counterinsurgency Center teaches officers not to think terrorism-bad but clinically when combating insurgents. Is George Washington comparable to Osama Bin Laden? But some in the military worry that traditional military functions are eroding because of an overemphasis on counterinsurgency.

On MSNBC’s Live with Carlos Watson this morning, TWI legal reporter Daphne Eviatar appeared in a roundtable with Scott Horton of Harper’s and NBC Justice

The Iowa Independent has some great photos from President Obama’s health care rally in Iowa City yesterday, depicting the president, other political leaders and

The presidential race may be a dead heat here in the United States. Across the globe, however, it’s a landslide for Sen. Barack Obama. Two extensive

Iran seems kind of tepid so far on the Obama administration’s outreach, but some on the Hill are undeterred. On Thursday, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) will

Today, Senator Mark Udall, a member of the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, said he supports President Obama’s decision to cut U.S. military aid to Pakistan by nearly one billion dollars over the next year

In yet another 5-4 ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court denied a man imprisoned for a rape and attempted murder he says he didn’t commit the right to the DNA

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala (Pic via stearns.house.gov) An attorney for the group partially responsible for a recent congressional investigation into Planned Parenthood says the group has targeted the chain of health clinics as part of a strategy to end abortion

Ben Smith’s discovery of a 72-page RNC fundraising PowerPoint is a must-read, especially the giveaway slides that reveal the ... seriousness with which the

Nico Pitney, Robert Mackey and Andrew Sullivan compile a lot of information this morning about an uptick in violent regime harassment of the Iranian dissidents.

Strangely enough, there hasn’t been a great deal of congressional reaction to Israel’s deadly Monday attack on an aid flotilla making its way to Gaza. Rep.

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A lot of the focus on campaign spending during this electoral cycle has centered on outside conservative groups, partly because they are new and partly because

It seems like only yesterday that members of Congress bitterly determined that the CIA didn’t sufficiently or accurately brief them about various important

In the Pennsylvania Senate race, where Rep. Joe Sestak (D) and former Rep. Pat Toomey (R) are locked in a virtual tie in the polls, the two candidates debated