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Stephen Walt blogged yesterday to put some stress on the idea that the goal in Afghanistan justifying the war should be to eradicate an even larger safe haven

If you’ve ever found yourself pondering this question, then you should probably get yourself to the How to Take Back America Conference in St. Louis on Sept.

Want another example of Mike’s thesis that Bush has lost his congressional mojo? Yesterday the House approved a measure sponsored by Rush Holt (D-NJ) to

In February, TWI’s Daphne Eviatar called attention to the weak protections in the federal economic stimulus bill for whistleblowers who expose contracting

St. Paul--Standing on the floor of the Xcel center last night made me embarrassed about where I come from. Born in Ohio to immigrant parents, with a father who

Rep. Jack Kingston’s (R-Ga.) has rapidly signed up 99 co-sponsors for his Czar Accountability and Reform Act of 2009, which I wrote about last week. All but one

Fed governors and market gurus have been warning about the threat of inflation to the United States economy -- but there remains no sign of prices rising at

Sen. Barack Obama has only one event today, a rally in Dunedin, Florida, and the rest of his schedule is cleared for debate prep. His campaign, however, is not

BOSTON -- At his morning press conference, Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-Mass.) seemed more miffed than flattered by a question about whether he had

One-time child Guantanamo Bay inmate of Mohammed Jawad -- he’s believed to be 21 years old, though it’s unclear, and was detained for about seven years -- was

The latest attempt to push the boundaries of campaign finance law comes from the Republican Senator Mike Lee, who filed an advisory opinion request with the

Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, reports the Dallas Morning News. It seems Dallas

Bill McBride, the economist behind the Calculated Risk blog, sums up the uninspiring data on job growth over the last few years and how the next few will likely play out: And we have to remember the numbers are grim: • There are 7.7 million fewer payroll jobs now than before the recession started in December 2007. • Almost 14 million Americans are unemployed. • Of those unemployed, 6.2 million have been unemployed for six months or more.

At a press availability earlier today, I asked Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) about the arrest of anti-ACORN muckraker James O’Keefe and what it meant for

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s comments to reporters yesterday that the economic downturn could pose a substantial hurdle to passing immigration

On March 13, President Obama nominated Maryland civil rights lawyer Thomas J. Perez for the post of Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of

Politico reports that Republicans are labeling the Fort Hood tragedy an act of terrorism, and Rasmussen Reports is out with a poll backing up that CW: Should

This is getting disgusting. Last year, when General David Petraeus trudged to Capitol Hill to report on the surge’s fortunes, the White House scheduled it on an

A bill in Pennsylvania that would empower the governor to appoint two members to a management board that would have the authority to influence collective

So claims Human Rights Watch in a press release. The former detainee, Rasul Kudaev, has been held for more than three years in pretrial detention in Nalchik, a

During this, the anniversary week of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, supporters and opponents offered their love or hate for the