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The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday night approved an amendment providing tens of millions of dollars to fund abstinence education programs for

When the Supreme Court tomorrow considers the government’s motion to dismiss the habeas corpus petition of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, it will find itself in

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on April 16, 2009. These are medieval documents,

Tomorrow Adm. Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, is going to give the Senate Armed Services Committee a briefing on the threats facing the

There are about 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, many of whom have children in public schools and pay property and sales taxes. They can’t

Police in Oak Park have dropped the case against Julie Bass for having a garden in her front yard. Instead, the city is pursuing criminal charges against her for failing to have her two dogs licensed. Bass made headlines around the world after she went public about the garden fray with Oak Park officials

Colleges and alumni associations throughout Texas are making money from banks and credit card companies by selling them the names, addresses, phone numbers and

Some good news from the Department of Labor: initial jobless claims dropped last week, falling from an adjusted 478,000 to 451,000. Still, the number is high,

Conservatives are having no trouble spinning Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-Alaska) surprise cut-and-run from her office as an act of personal heroism that will help her

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair delivered the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment briefing to the Senate intelligence committee today, and

Whoa. Via Juan Cole, here’s something I never expected to read: The Iraqi government is likely to abandon plans to sign short-term contracts with foreign oil

In a tweet sent out this morning, Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland, says that the EPA must stop using “activist/ junk science or lose their funding.” According to his Twitter account, Ross will be meeting with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today, one-on-one. Jackson has been criticized for her role as the head of the agency now often deemed a “job killer” and has been especially scrutinized for her role in a set of numeric nutrient criteria that are mandated for the state of Florida.

Today, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) -- the first Muslim elected to Congress -- and national security experts discussed the causes of, and solutions to,

Karen DeYoung’s Washington Post story today isn’t actually about the 2004 intelligence-community reforms failing to stop the would-be Northwest Airlines Flight

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee -- or half of it, more accurately -- has begun its first day of markup of the landmark Kerry-Boxer climate

Physics professor David C.

Karl Rove, who is launching his new book today, by way of donations has already taken sides in several 2010 Senate races. Rove’s 2009 contributions

An executive from BP will be asked to testify at a July 29 hearing on the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of organizing the 1988 bombing of

One of the goals of the unanimous Republican no vote on the stimulus package Wednesday was producing news analyses like this one, from The New York

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s response to the news that a man he granted clemency in 2000 is a suspect in yesterday’s brutal massacre of four police