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Roy Moore has come a long way, done a lot of things and stirred a few controversies since the days when he made 85 cents an hour bagging groceries at a Piggly Wiggly. Moore has tried professional kickboxing in Texas, ranching in the Australian outback and politics in Alabama.

The congressional Democrats leading the effort to protect consumers from overdraft fees said today that, despite Tuesday’s news that Bank of America and JP

After prodding from President Obama, House Democrats have reversed their earlier position that condoms should be part of a stimulating economic package. This

The conference committee to reconcile the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform is up and running, with conferees currently hashing proposals

Secretary Clinton’s distortions are typical of a politician, said Marc Sageman, a former CIA official and terrorism researcher, who distorts reality to muster support for a policy.

Is this it? some asked. The few dozen Tea Party activists who made it to upper Senate Park in Washington this morning were confused at the size of the

An uneasy mix of town hall meeting and self empowerment lecture, Michael Steele puzzled some members of the crowd at Howard University.

In the latest bit of brazen slander from the right, Republican Senators are trying to invent a scandal about Justice Department lawyers who -- horror --

When Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania defected to the Democratic Party last week, there were questions about just what kind of deals had been cut with

In October, it was Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) who rescued the Children’s Health Insurance Program from oblivion in the Senate Finance Committee. This week,

Remember when Condoleezza Rice, perhaps the most disastrously inept national security adviser in history, snapped at a Stanford student that the United States

The Obama administration may have just failed the first big test of its promises to end unwarranted government secrecy. According to a decision issued

Looking for a one-stop shop for everything President George W. Bush did wrong in the security arena? The progressive National Security Network has you

The Weekly Standard’s intrepid John McCormack tried, with some success, to ask Dede Scozzafava some uncomfortable questions. He got the N.Y. special election

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a push for Hispanic voters Tuesday by arguing Republicans are to blame for the Senate’s inability to move forward with

The stock-market crashes around the world are not symptoms of the disease but the cure. The disease is the excessive debt and leverage in the global financial system -- especially in the United States, Britain, Spain and Australia. The cure is the reduction of the level of debt.

Joby Warrick and Peter Finn’s Washington Post account of the 2002 torture of Abu Zubaydah is the most detailed and nuanced journalistic report to date of how

Responding to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Department of Homeland Security today acknowledged 11 deaths of immigrants in U.S.

I spent Saturday at the bi-annual Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot, right outside of Louisville, Ky. Gun enthusiasts of all stripes were there — from the