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It’s hard to imagine a better metaphor for the seriousness with which congressional Republicans have approached health care reform. The Senate Finance

I appear as a guest on Peter B. Collins’ radio show -- which is fun because it has live callers. It’s like talking to blog commenters, if commenters were more

Marcy Wheeler has a typically excellent post going through a remarkable annex to the 2004 CIA inspector general’s torture report: the psychological profile

On Saturday, Nouri al-Maliki endorsed -- unprompted and by name -- Barack Obama’s call for withdrawal from Iraq within 16 months to the German magazine Der

Two months before the 2006 election, then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie let it be known that there was an investigation into a rental deal made by Sen. Bob

For when you tire of my piecemeal approach (ahead of my forthcoming wrap-up), Noah Shachtman at Danger Room has you covered: ...Gates will pour $11 billion

Robert Reich, economist and former Clinton administration labor secretary, doesn’t think much of General Motors expected bankruptcy filing today, as the

The Senate Armed Services Committee may have approved Rep. John McHugh’s (R-N.Y.) bid to become Army secretary last week, but CQ reports that Kansas’ two

Former Sen. Norm Colman (R-Minn.), who now heads the conservative 501(c)4 group American Action Network that shares an office building with Karl

In 2006, McCain voted against, while Obama supported, an amendment to provide $20 million to the Dept. of Veteran Affairs for health-care facilities. The

Economists call for Congress to put together wage subsidies to spur hiring.

As the first anniversary of Obama’s election nears, White House staffers and campaigners relive the moment. America’s top health insurers spent more than $8

This is a must-read: Jordy Yager’s report on the quartet of Republican members of Congress who’ve endorsed the investigative new book Muslim Mafia: Inside

After weeks of escalating Republican attacks on the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, for alleged voter registration fraud, it turns

You’re not going to believe this, but Scott Carney’s got a post up at Danger Room interviewing Somali pirates on their strategies for hijacking cargo ships,

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) made headlines a few weeks back when he killed the Democrats’ hopes of passing an unemployment benefits extension before the arrival

Speaking of Rick Santelli, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart takes him on. (Santelli bailed out on an invitation to appear personally, as Jon Stewart put

This took pretty much forever. Rumor has it -- and it’s pure rumor, but blog-worthy rumor -- that there was friction over making former Clinton administration

The Los Angeles Times reports: The California Supreme Court today upheld Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage but also ruled that gay couples who wed

Tallies are still unofficial in the Iraqi provincial elections, but from the perspective of Sunni participation in the political process -- one of the biggest

Sen. Barack Obama is on his first extended vacation of the campaign, but his aides are working hard to counteract Sen. John McCain’s recent celebrity offensive.

A six-pack of noteworthy tidbits from this week’s news: # Open government watch : Lawmakers poked some more holes in Florida public records laws this year, but this year’s rollback of open government requirements was “about average” compared to previous years . Gov.