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The Senate just voted 62-30 to allow a $15 billion jobs bill to go to the floor for a final up-or-down vote. Five Republicans crossed the aisle to vote for the

Amb. Michael Oren pointedly snubbed J Street when the pro-Israel/pro-peace/progressive American Jewish lobby group offered to let him speak at its first annual

If you watched a lot of television as a kid like I did, you are no doubt familiar with Schoolhouse Rock, the cartoons and songs that tried to explain the way

So Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the alleged would-be bomber of Northwest Airlines Flight 253, is being detained and questioned in a federal prison in Michigan.

In the past few weeks, Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), the chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has become the unlikely point person on a debate on Wall Street

Yesterday, a report from The Conference Board showed that Americans’ confidence in the economy declined again in July, a result of a sluggish recovery and

If you think it’s a bad idea for bankers to run around deciding whether they find their customers morally objectionable or not, then it might be time to switch banks.

Buried in a profile of the controversial former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo in today’s Washington Post is the casual mention that the Justice Department

Following up on Spencer’s post, The Los Angeles Times today makes much of the fact that Solicitor General nominee Elena Kagan Tuesday told senators that she

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) read the McChrystal strategy review before Bob Woodward put it on The Washington Post’s frontpage, and among the thing he’s tried to

Via Marc Lynch’s Twitter feed, Lee Hamilton -- 9/11 Commissioner, Iraq Study Grouper, former Indiana Congressman, all-around wise man -- asks some very

A couple weeks ago, a dispatch from The Associated Press reported that Afghan President Hamid Karzai had delivered an 11-point plan to U.S. and NATO officials

Twentieth-century economic history generated two great bogeymen: the Great Inflation and the Great Depression. The memory of both continues to haunt

Here’s the top part of the packet FreedomWorks handed out this morning to participants in The People’s Surge, the effort directing a few hundred Tea Party

State Department spokesman Robert Wood got asked today whether the Obama administration fears for the viability of the Pakistani government. Enjoy: QUESTION:

The on-again, off-again immigration reform effort is apparently on again, with a new provision intended to regulate Americans’ access to the job market -- and

Despite last week’s release of four Bush-era Office of Legal Counsel memos, at least one Department of Justice opinion is still undisclosed.

More Republicans are starting to accept and advocate more for same-sex marriages in Iowa, and what was once considered a minority view within the GOP will “have influence” at the August Ames straw poll and 2012 Iowa Caucuses, a former state senator said Wednesday. Former state Sen

Greg Sargent makes a great point about the torture memos: What was actually revealed in yesterday’s memos was the nature of the Bush administration’s

Jake Tapper, the Twitter-addicted senior White House correspondent for ABC News, wrangles a frightening number of scoops and under-reported stories. He’s also,

Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who suffered an aneurysm Tuesday night while driving near Cleveland, has died this evening, according to the Associated

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