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If the Senate brings forward a stripped-down bill including a liability compromise, and opens the process to amendments, a minority staffer says it will pass with major Republican support.

As a general deal, President Barack Obama said Tuesday about Bush administration officials who shaped the post-9/11 interrogation and detention regime, I think that we should be looking forward and not backwards. But it might be hard to determine the difference.

A military commission judge has ruled that the types of abusive techniques U.S. interrogators used on a suspected 9-11 conspirator are irrelevant to determining

I have a story today on the ever-confusing opt-out process for Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program that shares fingerprints collected by

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Nov. 18, 2009. Well-known Israel expert Sarah

The Washington, D.C. based National Organization for Marriage has proven it has no qualms about spending thousands in Iowa’s Senate District 18 to stir the pot on gay marriage. The group also appears to have no qualms about assigning its own talking points to Republican candidate Cindy Golding

Republicans are announcing that their much touted Contract With America, will be unveiled in Virginia on Thursday and they promise that it will present a

In an interview with TWI yesterday at the Capitol, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said she is confident that Kenneth Feinberg, who has been charged by the White

Massachusetts state representatives are vowing to push for tough immigration laws after an illegal immigrant suspected of killing two people was discovered to

In the past few days, presidential contender Michele Bachmann has pushed back against the idea that the rich are to blame for the country’s unhealthy economy. “President Obama joined with the Occupy Wall Street protestors who believe that the problem we face is capitalism, the free markets and job creators,” Bachmann said in a statement Friday.

The editor of Small Wars Journal, one of the most influential defense policy blogs around, is getting tired of the recent nervousness about Afghanistan. How

Sen. Al Franken is a contributor to a book urging LGBT youth not to commit suicide because of bullying. “It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living,” by columnist Dan Savage contains an essay by Franken as well as fellow politicians President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, British Prime Minister David Cameron and celebrities Perez Hilton, Ellen Degeneres and Suze Orman

Though Republican lawmakers remain unswayed by Texas Democrats’ arguments that disenfranchising minority voters should outweigh unsubstantiated fears of polling

Earlier this year the organization SpeechNow.org won a sweeping victory against the FEC in the courts, which ruled that, in the wake of Citizens United, the

In Montana, where the state legislature all but repealed the state’s medical marijuana laws this spring, the court battle has begun –as has the battle for public opinion . The Montana Cannabis Industry Association filed suit to block implementation of the law. Now, the state has responded with court filings of its own.

A nationwide poll conducted following the entrance of Texas Gov. Rick Perry into the presidential race knocked Mitt Romney from the top spot and pushed back against U.S.

Ben Smith notes that the infamous Paul Shanklin CD that Republican National Committee chairman candidate Chip Saltsman sent around to committee members — the

As President Bush gets set today to announce his plan for reforming the financial markets, critics already are weighing in to say the proposals don’t amount to

Bailed-out insurance giant AIG will no doubt be a heated topic of discussion today, with The Wall Street Journal and other news organizations reporting that the

Federal authorities told Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Tuesday that they will investigate his department over allegations of discrimination and

I just got off the phone with Marcus Epstein, the conservative activist who organized the race and conservatism debate in 2006 that has become a flash point