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The trouble facing Democrats as they continue to push for health care reform is that, in a country of roughly 300 million people, almost 260 million already

The post-election panic on the right isn’t limited to the Republican Party’s identity crisis. As our sister site Colorado Independent has discovered, the

Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki is giving powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr’s forces three days to surrender in Basra, as clashes between Maliki’s security forces

Take a bow, Dan Senor and Roman Martinez! Moqtada al-Sadr -- the radical cleric dubbed The Most Dangerous Man in Iraq by a Newsweek cover story in December

On the eve of the presidential nominating conventions starting next week, Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, has narrowed, if not eliminated, the lead that Sen. Barack Obama, the likely Democratic candidate, held in national polls just a month ago.

Adam Gadahn, the California metalhead (really!) who became al-Qaeda’s first American citizen recruit, has been apprehended in Pakistan. In 2006, the Bush

Tony Perry has a fascinating piece in the Los Angeles Times today about an inchoate plan by the Marine Corps to send as many as 15,000 Marines to Afghanistan

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A coalition of psychiatrists sent an open letter to Barack Obama yesterday urging him not to appoint John Brennan, the former head of the Terrorist Threat

Immigration is an important issue in the United States, but is it something the GOP nomination for president should hinge on? Is there a reason that as unauthorized immigration from Mexico to the U.S.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke may be running for a Hero of Wall Street award. Over the last few months, he has opened up the Fed’s coffers

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty got an exclusive interview with Hamid Karzai after yesterday’s presidential debate. The whole thing’s fairly predictable --

Not-for-much-longer DNC Chairman Howard Dean just held a conference call with America’s bloggers -- or, as Gov. Sarah Palin would have it, kids in pajamas

Nearly a month after the executives of the Big Three automakers arrived in Washington on corporate jets to ask Congress for a bailout, a group of auto workers made the same trip by carpool. Their mission was the same, but the blue-collar image they projected was strikingly different.

The latest tweet from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa): Specter got it all wrong that I ever used words death boards. Even liberal press never accused me of

Via Democracy Arsenal. CQ Politics’ Political Insider reports some glaring similarities between parts of Sen. John McCain’s statement to reporters earlier today

The House Judiciary Committee is, thankfully, taking a recess from its plodding interrogation of AG Michael Mukasey. The most notable moments have occurred when