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More from Center for American Progress’ Brian Katulis, who’s in Kabul to monitor Wednesday’s Thursday’s Afghanistan election for Democracy International. He

Today, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has an opinion piece in The New York Times entitled, awkwardly, Welcome to the Recovery. The article comes as

The Salerno army base offers a window into the hard counterinsurgency battle at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala (Pic via stearns.house.gov) Rep

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Association has released its annual condition report for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The report, which will guide a comprehensive review of sanctuary regulations in 2012, details the decline of several species and resources in the area, which have suffered as a result of both climate change and human impact.

At a speech at the national convention of Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta today, President Obama will address the progress being made in the wars in Iraq

Iran is placing extraordinary emphasis on its ballistic missile and WMD development programs. The ballistic missile infrastructure in Iran is now more

New unemployment claims took their first significant drop in nearly four months last week, dipping below 400,000 for the first time since April with 398,000 new claims. The four week average stands at 413,750.

New Mexico will end a food stamp supplement for elderly and disabled residents, according to the Associated Press . The cuts come just as Congress is considering cuts to the food stamp program even as a record-high amount of people are receiving the benefits. The AP reports that the Human Services Department will stop the supplement on July 1 because there is no money in the state budget for the program.

While opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act will be well-funded, a strategy division, and the size of the Democrats’ majorities in Congress, are making life difficult for the anti-labor side of the debate.

From Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker comes this simple but not-much-discussed observation: Empathy is not, as some seem to think, a scourge peculiar

COMMENTARY Washington again placed bets on the wrong foreign leaders. Is personal diplomacy a farce?

Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) plans to celebrate Tuesday whether or not he wins his party’s primary. Democrats decline to host town halls in an attempt to

Senate leaders are only too aware that, amidst the nation’s jobs crisis, the filing deadline for emergency unemployment benefits is less than two weeks away.

The full agenda for the Sept. 12 Tea Party march on Washington is up at the event’s Website. Co-sponsored by FreedomWorks and a constellation of conservative

Today Alabamans go to the polls, again, to determine the Republican candidate for governor after a June 1 primary forced a runoff between Bradley Byrne, a

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In the wake of his somewhat surprising -- and very soft-peddled -- victory in the CPAC straw poll, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is gearing up for a big showing at

Good news for people who don’t like their airliners hijacked or their chemical plants blown up. Rand Beers, longtime counterterrorism aide to presidents Bill