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So much for the quid pro quo explanation. Jay Bybee, the former Office of Legal Counsel chief who issued the 2002 torture memos and who has since become a

Ben Nelson doesn’t claim much agency in the debate over the public option. Maybe Blue Dogs oppose the public option simply because liberals like it. Rep.

As Congress continues to negotiate unemployment benefits legislation, Bloomberg has a story this week noting what few others have: that the so-called extension

For weeks, Republican lawmakers have been pushing for an increase in offshore oil drilling, hoping to use towering fuel costs and Democrats’ historic

In a town that wallows in trivia and hollow controversy, this tale takes the cake. Yesterday, speaking about jobs in New Hampshire, President Obama pointed

Ryan Grim at The Huffington Post has a nice piece about former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s recent foray into opposing the resettlement of Uighur detainees,

Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary, was asked today whether the administration will insist on the creation of a separate consumer financial protection

Speaking of returning the United States to an active role in Arab-Israeli peace processing, here’s a statement just issued by new White House press secretary

Floyd Norris of The New York Times picks up on President George W. Bush’s myopic views of the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,

Yesterday, when it leaked that President Obama will put forward a plan to withdraw combat troops from Iraq in 19 months, I figured antiwar activists wouldn’t

The Senate this morning voted to end debate (ie, kill a filibuster) on legislation to give residents of Washington, D.C., a voting member in the House of

The House Budget Committee this afternoon approved a budget reconciliation bill that jumpstarts the process that Democrats hope will end in the Senate passing

Not to be competitive about it or anything, but following up on Matt’s post, the case of Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan picked up at age 16 or 17 and tortured

While it may have looked symbolic and easy, President Obama’s signing of the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act today was a bold move signifying a renewed interest in the

Panetta accuses Cheney of wishing harm on the U.S., and Republicans aren’t exactly rushing to the former VP’s defense. On a single page, The Washington Times

Why’s that? Because Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut’s popular attorney general, has already announced that he’ll be entering the race for the seat soon to be

Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) has been out of the public eye for two years, and I’d forgotten how he can reduce everything to a football metaphor. An example, from

Barring the results of a fraud commission’s recount of 10 percent of the ballots in the Afghanistan election, Hamid Karzai’s victory has been tallied at 54

Bill Clinton’s camp didn’t appreciate John Edwards’ hypocrisy about extramarital affairs. Mike Castle can’t win as a write-in candidate for Delaware. The

Whoever wins the Republican National Committee chairmanship today might want to tweak the party’s Website. Unless, of course, he wants voters to think George