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In a speech to the Center for a New American Security, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy shed light on the approach she’d take as Pentagon chief.

Marc Ambinder has a good post explaining the president’s behavior after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried and failed to blow up Northwest Airlines

Remember when George W. Bush was supposed to be considering closing Guantanamo Bay? Explain why anyone ever believed that would happen, please. The New York

As the Senate takes up debate on climate legislation, environmental groups slam a biofuels provision.

Just when you thought breast cancer screening couldn’t get any more confusing, two national medical groups issued new mammogram guidelines Monday recommending

On a blogger conference call, Adm. James Stavridis, the military commander of NATO, said he was a 100 percent supporter of a much-debated proposal for the

As you’d expect, Dick Cheney’s biographer Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard is the first to report the former vice president’s statement: The documents

< Facing a tough (and some say insurmountable) road to the nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) campaign announced today that the senator

On the campaign trail in Indiana, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton likes to talk about Magnequench, a manufacturer of high-tech magnets used in precision-guided

The McCain campaign’s responses to the events of the last two days have revealed much about its strategy for dealing with crises. This strategy can be easily

My friend Ethan Pollack, an analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, writes to note that our hypothetical $250,000-a-year earner from this post might actually

Months of compromises left many liberals disappointed, but party leaders hailed the bill’s passage as a landmark leap forward.

It can’t explain every aspect of Taliban resilience, of course -- insurgencies survive on passive or active popular support, whether freely given or coerced --

Updated at 6:00 p.m. EST with a video of Gingrich discussing Ronald Reagan, the Soviet Union and American exceptionalism. About 200 miles southwest of where

John Soltz of VoteVets makes an absolutely crucial point in an interview with TPM’s Christina Bellantoni: Soltz said VoteVets members are worried the policies

Following up on the revelation that four western oil-giants are getting massive no-bid contracts from the Iraqi Oil Ministry comes the least surprising story of

The Republican field hasn’t significantly shifted in terms of rankings placement since our last edition, which belies the fact that individual percentages for candidates continue to shift dramatically. What can be said with a reasonable amount of certainty is that there is no clear GOP frontrunner in Iowa. The predictions and opinions reprinted below are provided by a group of state panelists comprised of academics, grassroots activists, political reporters and consultants

A newly released study by the United States Geological Survey shows that nitrate concentrations in the Mississippi River Basin did not consistently decline from 1980 to 2008. The increased nitrate levels directly affect the Gulf of Mexico, where they contribute to “dead zones,” or hypoxia.

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The pushback is unlikely to become what critics hoped it might -- a humbling moment.

The ethics committee meeting is now in full swing, and Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas), the lead Democrat on the investigation panel, has laid out the four broad