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Not much will stop the right from insisting that the Obama administration’s outreach to Syria is undone by the Syria insurgent pipeline to Iraq re-opening,

Most Americans are concerned that Afghanistan will become another Vietnam. The Pentagon is becoming more critical of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The Times runs

Our finance writer Mary Kane reports that a bruised, battered and little-noticed federal agency responsible for insuring mortgages is about to take a prominent

Rep. Michele Bachmann will be headlining a California-based religious right webcast on Mar.

For the second day in a row, here’s State Department spokesman Robert Wood eliding the issue of how to conditionalize aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan. He’s

As Michigan Democrats are scratching their heads over how to resolve the dilemma of their uncounted primary delegates, the office of Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.)

Car manufacturers looking for a bailout in December pledged to meet standards they now call unreasonable.

The militant triviality of Washington personalities is enough to make me break character and go outside of my national-security lane. Andy Card, chief of staff

In his op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, Congress’s Phony War on Torture,” William McGurn takes congressional Democrats to task for not immediately

It seems that Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), President Barack Obama’s pick to head the Commerce Department, doesn’t exactly believe in the necessity of that

I’m way late to this party -- stupid Panetta hearing! -- but judging from this interview with Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), the GOP has apparently decided to

Orly Taitz, the birther attorney who gained a sort of official movement leadership status with this week’s appearence on The Colbert Report, is bragging

Both Texas and Oklahoma are considering limiting access to RU 486 — a pill that is used to induce early labor and end a pregnancy.

Last Friday, the National Rifle Association held its annual gathering in Charlotte, N.C., where ThinkProgress asked a number of participants whether the Second

While you were sleeping, the Iraqi security forces and the ex-insurgent militiamen known as the Awakening Councils or the Sons of Iraq skirmished in the Baghdad

<p>Southern California farmer Chris Hurd is worried. As it is, the tomato crops on his family farm are struggling because of a dwindling water supply.

To some, Memorial Day signals the start of summer; to political observers, it marks the onset of a contentious primary season that will pit outsiders against party favorites.

A group of House Republicans thinks there are Muslim spies posing as interns on Capitol Hill. Why did Snowe break ranks and vote for the health care

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on July 8, 2009. Remember how CIA Director Leon

Florida had 69 mass layoff actions during the month of September, the fourth highest number in the nation, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics summary released today

With a new CBS/New York Times poll finding that 59 percent of registered voters don’t think Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is ready to be vice president, one of Sen.

The DISCLOSE Act is up for another vote in the Senate today, and while everyone understands that the chances of flipping a lone Republican to vote for the cause