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Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) kicked off the new campaign on Thursday to create a national security push to pass climate change legislation. Climate change, Kerry

For all of the federal government’s gains in immigration enforcement -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement will deport a record 400,000 people this fiscal

Via Justin Elliott, Greg Sargent and Tim Fernholz, the aforementioned Republican members of Congress are incensed that the Council on American-Islamic

Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) isn’t the only Democrat playing hard-ball on health reform this year. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters

Andrea Mitchell went on MSNBC’s ’Morning Joe’ yesterday and made a claim that freaked out former Rep. Tom Andrews (R-Me.). Her sources, she said, had discovered

There were some great moments in today’s McCain campaign conference call with reporters, featuring Arizona’s other senator, Jon Kyl and former CIA Director

Usually when a journalist says this is a thoughtful piece of writing what s/he means is this is a well-expressed recapitulation of things I already believe,

WASILLA, Alaska -- In my quest to understand Gov. Sarah Palin, I attended services at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church, Sunday morning. I ended up being

At Politico, Maggie Haberman and Ben Smith have a good piece on the perfect storm ginning up politicians’ opposition to public-sector workers. Firefighters

As we wrote this morning -- and Mary tackles eloquently here -- the banks appear to be winning the battle in the Senate over cramdown legislation that would

Chadi Moussa is a man in trouble, The New York Times reports today. He is unable to afford the mortgage on his $2.24 California mansion - and yet ineligible for

Here’s White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, responding today to questions about Tim Geithner’s role in the New York Fed’s 2008 decision to censor AIG payments to

Following on Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s star-crossed testimony in the Senate yesterday about Northwest Airlines Flight 253 -- which the

A central component of the Obama administration’s economic strategy was abandoned by the White House in the days leading up Senate vote, giving political cover to opposing Democrats.

Too close to racial profiling, says Michael German, a former FBI counterterrorism agent who’s now the civil liberties organization’s national-security legal

As long as I’m praising Marc I Won The Morning Ambinder, check out this rather significant data point he mines from a Washington Post story on the final

The Afghanistan war is about to focus on al-Qaeda again: While emphasizing the importance of continuing U.S. operations against Pakistan-based Taliban

The Obama administration’s plans are running smack into an industry buzz saw that they might not escape.

U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband gave a speech to NATO headquarters in Brussels about the Afghanistan war, and it might be the most thorough and explicit