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Daphne? Can you help me understand something? I thought from President Obama’s answer to Sam Stein’s question at his press conference last month that he was

After meeting with immigration enforcement officials, the county of Arlington, Va., is giving up on its push to remove itself from Secure Communities, a program

There’s so much to say about President Obama’s historic speech in Cairo today. But for now, I want to focus on the aspects of it that conservatives insisted

Jeb Bush isn’t terribly happy with President Obama’s willingness to blame his brother George for his administration’s challenges: For months now, Jeb Bush has

Any sanctions would seek to curb Iran’s nuclear program.

Another thing that Noah Shachtman got into during his interview Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the military’s newest

Not long ago, a Marine colonel named Dale Alford who served in Afghanistan had some blunt criteria for how we’d know if U.S. troops were truly partnered with

This email came to reporters’ inboxes from the office of the director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, objecting to this Politico story about Blair’s

The Obama administration is reportedly looking more closely at recess appointments for some nominees who’ve been mowed down by filibusters, with Sen. Richard

I’m going to head over to the Dirksen Senate office building pretty soon to cover the Soufan/Zelikow hearings. But before I go: it looks like Khost

Noah Shachtman attends a Columbia University address by Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that featured the admiral tamping down

Greg Sargent has the ad that Conservatives for Patients Rights, the anti-health care reform 527 run by notorious hospital industry fraudster Rick Scott, will be

The New York Times identifies the State Department official who urged Twitter to reschedule a site maintenance -- and risk disrupting the communications of

Citing a new report by the Congressional Budget Office that corn-based ethanol subsidies cost taxpayers more than $7 billion a year, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.)

Here are some photos from the two-day conservative conference. Phyllis Schlafly, president of the Eagle Forum, poses for photos. In the background:

It was in Iowa City that then-candidate Barack Obama first unveiled his health care reform plans, back in May 2007. Now, having signed a landmark reform bill,

The sailing is suddenly much smoother for Leon Panetta’s reported nomination to head the CIA, as California senator and prior Panetta critic Diane Feinstein --

Today on Capitol Hill, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) took to the chamber floor and asked for unanimous consent to pass his much-discussed bill to raise the

The story out of Colorado is that the Tea Party’s favored Republicans will face the Democrats’ chosen candidates in November, while Connecticut Republican

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee, just delivered a floor speech that is deeply