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President Obama, just now: We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and has become a tremendous recruiting tool for

As part of its The Day Before event on climate and national security, the nonpartisan national security think tank the American Security Project released a new

Speaking a George Bush Institute conference in Dallas, California’s recent losing GOP candidate for governor Meg Whitman said the GOP has it all wrong on immigration–or at least has the language wrong. She told blogger Ruben Navarette, Jr., who writes at pajamasmedia.com , that demonizing Latinos is not the way to go if Republicans want to lead on the issue.

Breaking news from Reuters: An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in

The Minnesota Independent’s Andy Birkey reports that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has thrown her support behind a Nov. 9 fundraiser in St. Paul for the

One of the perks of political rock star-dom is that you get to write pretty much whatever you want and the nation’s leading newspapers will publish it. Take

Yesterday, radical anti-abortion rights group Operation Rescue sent out a press release announcing its “ Summer of Mercy 2.0 ” in Germantown, Maryland. # The last “Summer of Mercy,” took place twenty years ago in Wichita, Kansas, where work done by anti-abortion rights groups culminated in the shooting of abortion-provider George Tiller

Political reporters in Washington are preparing for a late night at work sifting through the National Archives’ just-released trove of memos and correspondence

Rep.

After interviewing Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) a few minutes ago, I think I want to revise and extend my comment this morning that most members of Congress alarmed

Jesselyn Radack at Daily Kos has a nice roundup of yesterday’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, called and led by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who

Whether Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) is the member of Congress whose National Security Agency-tapped phone calls were referenced in last week’s New York Times

NPR is reporting that Justice David Souter, long rumored to be unhappy in Washington and eager to return home to New Hampshire, will resign from the Supreme

Yesterday evening, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) withdrew his filing for cloture on the jobs bill, also known as the tax extenders bill or H.R. 4213, currently in

Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) doesn’t buy into the new Afghanistan strategy. She worries that if Gen. McChrystal doesn’t make the progress he thinks he needs

Conservative Fox News commentator Sean Hannity went after Rep. Keith Ellison in an interview Wednesday evening, criticizing the Minnesota congressman for saying Fox News has contributed to the scapegoating of Muslims.

Among all the reshufflings set to occur in the wake of Sen. Arlen Specter’s (Pa.) surprise switch today to the Democratic Party, it looks like Sen. Charles

After the Texas Legislature’s latest round of funding cuts to higher education, some public universities in the state hope outsourcing some functions will help

Despite its small size, the 99ers’ rally accomplished an important goal: It got the attention of the press, and advocates for the 99ers see the press as the key to creating pressure for legislation.

Now that Rep. Howard Berman’s (D-Calif.) bill authorizing new energy-sector sanctions on Iran has passed the House, the Obama administration is looking to the