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It’s official: the Minnesota State Canvassing Board has just certified DFLer Al Franken as the junior U.S. senator from Minnesota. The Norm Coleman campaign

Continuing their midterms ramp up, the Democratic National Committee launched a preemptive attack against the GOP this morning by attempting to define the

As DeLong noted, Blackwater lost its license to operate in Iraq in 2007, after its security officers gunned down innocent civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square.

Politico’s Laura Rozen catches Hillary Rodham Clinton indicating to our old friend Tavis Smiley that she doesn’t envision staying on as secretary of state for

Today, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission continues its fourth round of hearings on the origins of the recession, with the current and former Treasury

Two Republican members of Congress will hold a press conference Thursday to discuss Americans United for Life’s recent report accusing Planned Parenthood

UPDATED Oct. 27, 2:40 p.m. EST: Amended with a correction* and update UPDATE: The National Organization for Marriage has since removed from its website the

The iconoclastic conservative, who’d spent the past week attacking the way that GOP lost the health care fight, says his departure came after being asked to

Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) spokesman Brad Dayspring has responded to Vice President Joe Biden’s remark that he’s less concerned about a long-term threat from

After the failure of the third cloture vote to start formal debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform proposal, Senate Democrats say

Crack intelligence reporter Erick Erickson posted that he was hearing a very credible rumor that CIA Director Leon Panetta has dispatched a resignation

Last week, The American Independent reported on the so-called “gun show loophole” that permits private gun sales without a background check in most states.

Something I couldn’t fit into my piece yesterday: Ivan Oelrich, the acting president of the Federation for American Scientists, weighs in on what President

Here are some photos from today’s Tea Party protest in Washington, D.C. (Click images to enlarge.) – You can

Most observers agree that Al Franken’s (DFL-Minn.) election to the U.S. Senate is not a matter of if, but when. Not so for newly minted Republican National

The benefits of longer instructional time for students were put into question this week with the published results of Chicago Public School’s state

<p>Apropos of <a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/state-department">my piece on the State Department</a>, I ventured

Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, wrote an op-ed for the Detroit Free Press over the weekend calling for the state to change the way it selects judges from elections to an appointment process, as it is at the federal level.

By the end of this week, 40 state legislatures will have adjourned, concluding a legislative season full of proposed bills aimed to restrict women’s access to

On Wednesday morning, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign rolled out its toughest talking points of this Republican National Convention. Chief Obama spokesperson Bill

As Sen. John McCain accepts the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday night, his opponent will enter the No Spin Zone. Yes, Sen. Barack Obama is

Howard Wolpe, former U.S. Congressman and Democratic nominee for governor in the state of Michigan, has passed away at the age of 71.