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When I watched Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s questioning of the government’s lawyer in the extraordinary rendition case of Arar v. Ashcroft in

Cliffs Natural Resources, the international mining and natural resources company that began producing biofuel cubes at a factory near Marquette this year, has announced that it is closing its renewaFUEL operation. In a statement this week the company said that it plans to focus resources on iron mining, its core business.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is one of the most understaffed, demoralized agencies in Washington. Some say even top-flight talent won’t be enough to reform it.

The Counterinsurgency Center teaches officers not to think terrorism-bad but clinically when combating insurgents. Is George Washington comparable to Osama Bin Laden? But some in the military worry that traditional military functions are eroding because of an overemphasis on counterinsurgency.

On MSNBC’s Live with Carlos Watson this morning, TWI legal reporter Daphne Eviatar appeared in a roundtable with Scott Horton of Harper’s and NBC Justice

The presidential race may be a dead heat here in the United States. Across the globe, however, it’s a landslide for Sen. Barack Obama. Two extensive

Today, Senator Mark Udall, a member of the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, said he supports President Obama’s decision to cut U.S. military aid to Pakistan by nearly one billion dollars over the next year

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala (Pic via stearns.house.gov) An attorney for the group partially responsible for a recent congressional investigation into Planned Parenthood says the group has targeted the chain of health clinics as part of a strategy to end abortion

Ben Smith’s discovery of a 72-page RNC fundraising PowerPoint is a must-read, especially the giveaway slides that reveal the ... seriousness with which the

Nico Pitney, Robert Mackey and Andrew Sullivan compile a lot of information this morning about an uptick in violent regime harassment of the Iranian dissidents.

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It seems like only yesterday that members of Congress bitterly determined that the CIA didn’t sufficiently or accurately brief them about various important

In the Pennsylvania Senate race, where Rep. Joe Sestak (D) and former Rep. Pat Toomey (R) are locked in a virtual tie in the polls, the two candidates debated

From Peter Wallston’s piece on the conservative fringe, which contains a lot of stuff that should be familiar to TWI readers, here is the reason Lisa De

A GOP House candidate won’t rule out a violent overthrow of the government. An escaped crocodile on a plane kills 20 people. Kirsten Gillibrand wishes old

Just in time for the 4,000th American death in Iraq, Frontline will air the first installment of an amazing two-part documentary called Bush’s War tonight.

Sarah Palin endorses Marco Rubio as mavericky. Meg Whitman says she’ll pull attack ads -- but not the ones attacking positions. James Cameron plans to

Tax cuts in the middle of two wars are OK, but tax hikes to pay the freight of those wars would be irresponsible. That’s the message coming from Rep. Tom Price

The Washington Post reports on the difficult situation the United States is in going into United Nations climate change talks in Cancun at the end of the

The Columbus Metropolitan Club was host Thursday to a fiery debate on Senate Bill 5, the Ohio law that has become the central battlefield ahead of the state’s