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Late last month, two young coal miners were killed in western Kentucky when a roof collapsed at the Dotiki coal mine, a non-union operation owned by Tulsa,

The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein gets three or four scoops before you put in your contacts in the morning, so I wasn’t surprised that he got to ask a question at

I didn’t get a substantive response from the National Counterterrorism Center or its director, Michael Leiter, to yesterday’s Senate report singling it out for

This story is the eighth in a series: The Rise of the Counterinsurgents. After nearly seven years of costly strategic ignorance in the U.S. wars in Iraq

With so many bailouts, anti-foreclosure plans and recession-mitigation strategies coming out of the Treasury Department in recent months, it’s easy to forget

A coalition of major environmental groups was planning a big rally outside the Capitol at noon on Thursday to encourage Congress to pass a climate and energy

Health policy experts warn the Democrats’ proposal to terminate the Children’s Health Insurance Program would hike health care costs for low-income families and increase the number of uninsured kids.

To follow up on my earlier post about Sen. Pat Leahy’s (D-Vt.) refusal to hold hearings on the torture memos as chair of the Judiciary Committee, we now learn,

To the surprise of no one, the House approved sweeping reforms to the credit card industry Thursday, including provisions banning retroactive rate increases,

The nomination of Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee for solicitor general -- the government’s top legal representative in cases before the Supreme Court --

As you’ve read, yesterday the U.N. mission in Afghanistan abruptly fired its deputy director for political affairs, Peter Galbraith, the longtime American

Yesterday, birther lawyer Orly Taitz printed a letter from Gary Lima of Greenbrier, claiming that a Republican congressional candidate in Tennessee’s 6th

John Kiriakou was a CIA counterterrorism official involved in the initial capture of Abu Zubaydah in 2002. He was not involved in Abu Zubaydah’s torture. In

Anyone following the twists and turns of the increasingly cacophonous torture debate knows by now that one way the Office of Legal Counsel justified its many

Pollution in the St.

The Interior Department responded swiftly this morning to a report by its inspector general that said last-minute editing by the White House of a report on the

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman (R) might be balking at the deal Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb) secured to have Washington pick up Nebraska’s entire tab for a proposed

I just received a long email from a woman named Theresa Goins, from Bon Secour, Ala. Her fiance, James Martin, has been waiting to receive compensation from the

More than seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a state law criminalizing homosexual conduct, the unconstitutional provision remains on the

COMMENTARY The talking heads pretty much got it wrong. It was an anti-gun ballot measure -- more than his race -- that cost Tom Bradley the California governorship.

A new database highlights the hand-in-glove relationship between private organizations and the Defense Department that has watchdog groups concerned.