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My friend Kriston Capps tips me to an interesting look by The Associated Press at whether Nigeria’s violence-plagued oil sector foreshadows oil development

On the week of the one-year anniversary of Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration bill -- which has provoked copycats throughout the country -- Republican

The trendy way to influence elections this cycle is through independent expenditure committees, and as I wrote yesterday, these committees are, in most

Place this in the legislative-futility column. Just a few hours after the Senate voted yesterday to grant the Obama administration its request for the

TWI Legal Correspondent Daphne Eviatar is a scheduled guest. Daphne will talk about her fantastic story on Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) truth commission

Though former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has yet to launch a formal presidential exploratory committee, despite his Newt Explore 2012 website, the

President-elect Barack Obama tried to kill two birds with one stone by keeping a campaign promise and reaching out to the GOP, but now he’s in danger of losing Democratic allies.

Former U.S.

From the gaggle transcript: The President thought the meeting was very productive, an extension of the meetings that have been had thus far as we reassess and

This is one of the more surprising polls I’ve seen recently: Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of the vice president, is leading Rep. Mike Castle

FireDogLake brings this Gorilla Guides translation of Sadr’s cease-fire statement: Based upon our responsibilities under the law and for the sparing of Iraki

Though originally projected to go live at the end of September, a statewide prescription drug monitoring program will now be implemented on Oct.

When troubled borrower Diane McLeod’s debt problems made the front page of The New York Times earlier this week, she ignited a debate over borrowers,

President Obama tapped Rajiv Shah, a 36-year old undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture and medical doctor with extensive experience in food security and public heath, to head the agency.

Matthew Yglesias and Jon Henke argue over whether the anti-spending Tea Party protests are astroturf — fake grassroots — because groups like

Ken Keen, a three-star Army general, was in Haiti on Tuesday at the U.S. ambassador’s office shortly before nightfall when the quake began. The ambassador’s

Former State Department adviser Philip Zelikow at this morning’s Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing testified that when he saw the so-called

Tuesday’s rallies drew only small crowds, but the demonstrators were hopeful that passage of health care reform would lead to an electoral and legal backlash.

ANCHORAGE -- While I was working on a piece about Gov. Sarah Palin’s energy policies, one local pointed me to the story of a town of about 300 residents on the

Yesterday, Rep. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) accused banking giant JPMorgan Chase of violating a confidentiality agreement with one its customers, Susan Wones, who had