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Michelle Goldberg profiles Alex Jones, the explosion-voiced radio host who spent eight years of the George W. Bush administration being dismissed as a

It’s the most controversial counterterrorism program there is. The CIA’s remotely piloted aircraft, operating with the tacit consent of the Pakistani

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), a long-time abortion rights advocate, is predicting that a controversial amendment restricting abortion coverage that passed the

What’s in store for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke at tomorrow’s United Nations conference on Afghanistan at The

The Obama administration touted a victory Wednesday, as the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Affordable Care Act, the first time the federal health reform law was upheld by a Republican appointee. Previously, though probably by coincidence, the rulings had fallen along party lines. # It’s hard to draw many conclusions about what this means for Florida’s challenge to the law , which was heard this month in the 11th Circuit, and which will likely be decided by the Supreme Court

Not the blue states. There are roughly 46 million people living in America without health insurance coverage, representing about 15 percent of the nation’s

It’s from the New York Republicans, who are demanding (with no chance of success) a special election to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is

A new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly approve of financial regulatory reform, with two-thirds of respondents supporting the

Daniel Avila, a lobbyist and spokesperson for the Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage of the U.S. Catholic Conference, resigned on Friday

Obama administration officials laid out in their greatest detail thus far on Tuesday for how the administration seeks to revamp the Bush administration’s use of much-criticized military commissions for foreign terrorism suspects.

Whether the final state budget looks more like the Spartan version passed by the state House or the less-austere bill struggling in the Senate, Texas mental

Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Sue Dvorsky had a few things to say Sunday in advance of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s Iowa appearance

The University of South Florida logo (Pic via cee.eng.usf.edu) The Florida State University System’s Board of Governors met late yesterday to make a decision on USF Polytechnic’s attempt to split into a separate university, a decision that would make it Florida’s 12th public university.

The polling firm releases a lengthy look at the movement; read it after the jump.

The subject of a recent episode of the NBC comedy series “The Office” was about a doomsday device created by devious employee Dwight K. Schrute (played by

The ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee -- you couldn’t flip on a TV without seeing him in the aftermath of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s botched

One more thing about former Vice President Dick Cheney and torture, loosely connected to Ross Douthat’s New York Times column. If you’re Dick Cheney, right now,

The campaign of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party’s candidate in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, is clearly enjoying the bar fight between The

One of the NRSC’s hardest potential targets in 2010 has been Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.): appointed in a bit of a mess by Gov. David Paterson (D-N.Y.),

Congressman Ben Ray Luján will face attacks from the National Republican Campaign Committee over his vote to raise the debt limit. Luján was one of 97 Democrats voting to raise the debt limit $2 trillion to avoid a default on the debt the United States government owes