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AIG CEO Edward Liddy said today that he’s asked AIG employees who received bonuses larger than $100,000 to give half the money back, and that some AIG employees

Yesterday at the Heritage Foundation, U.K. Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox spoke about the state of the war in Afghanistan. He argued that effective

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has added four new members to his Iowa leadership team that represent all three sections of the state

On a conference call with reporters to release an unclassified version of the new National Intelligence Strategy, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair

Just in time to throw another twist into the health reform debate, the Government Accountability Office reported today that Medicaid is paying to fill

Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage has perfected the art of the salt-in-the-wound press release. His message to supporters on Scott Brown:

Turns out the story from the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph that the photos the Obama administration is refusing to release, despite a court order to do so, are not the

An article in today’s New York Times about traditional big Democratic donors drawing back their support makes an interesting point about the disparity in the

Adam Serwer reads through the State Department legal adviser’s recent defense of why drone strikes outside Afghanistan are legal and observes that the rationale

The Comcast’s acquisition of a controlling stack in NBC Universal, approved on Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), included a stipulation

A new round of confrontation between demonstrators in Des Moines and law enforcement may erupt Friday night when a temporary permit allowing for 24-hour occupation of grounds on the west side of the Iowa Capitol expires. Participants and supporters of the Occupy Des Moines movement — a loosely-knit group that generally objects to perceived ongoing political and economic inequalities — are currently meeting to discuss a possible path ahead if their permit, state officials say was only issued for a three-day time period, expires at 11 p.m

The Judiciary subcommittee didn’t, ultimately, get a copy of Philip Zelikow’s 2005 memorandum opposing torture, written when he was counselor to the State

CNN political reporter Peter Hamby has the non-Iran tweet of the day: What is it with those two?

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has been a long-time supporter of creating a government-backed health insurance plan to compete against

The Nation adds a new perspective to my story from earlier this week about Pedro Guzman, a man fighting against deportation charges in Stewart Detention Center

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

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Sometime during this hearing, Omar Khadr’s lawyers intend to call as a witness someone identified only as Interrogator #1. Interrogator #1,

<p><span >Obama and Huckabee grabbed top slots in Iowa Independent&rsquo;s final set of