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A group of 10 Democratic senators today reintroduced legislation designed to end the sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine -- a long-standing

In response to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday questioning the constitutionality of Gov. Rick Perry’s upcoming prayer event, the governor is calling the

Hillary Chabot talks to grumpy Massachusetts Republicans who think they have an outside chance at an upset in next month’s special election for U.S. Senate -- a

Ah, once again: the stakes in Iraq. From Bush’s speech at Fort Bragg yesterday: Some of our fellow citizens wonder whether the mission in Iraq is worth the

Noam Scheiber directs us to an interesting Politico assessment of how changes in the handling of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner have boosted his

The Huffington Post’s unstoppable Nico Pitney culls together some of the tweets that @PersianKiwi sent out on Mir Hussein Moussavi’s address to today’s huge

The Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire blog has dug up an audio recording of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals argument in the controversial

A little history: Senate Democrats thought they were done with financial regulatory reform, ready to vote and pass the bill to President Obama. Then Sen. Scott

The Oklahoma conservative and past co-sponsor, with former Sen. Barack Obama, of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, is not all sold on the

Courage and Consequence reads less like the story of one of history’s most powerful presidential advisers and more like a quickie fightback book from some apparatchik ensnared in a petty scandal.

It’s still not a definitive rejection of the deal reached in Vienna to reprocess Iran’s uranium abroad into a matter unsuitable for a nuclear weapon, but it’s

Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies, read my piece today and emailed over a couple of thoughts about the current debate over

Al Franken gets his groove back. Chuck Norris wants you to vote (for gun rights). Stephen Hawking doesn’t think God created the universe. Carly Fiorina

The former Republican governor of and senator from Virginia is making the rounds among Washington conservative groups pushing his new organization, the American

From the statement just issued by the office of Sen. Robert Byrd, the 91-year-old West Virginia Democrat who was hospitalized more than five weeks ago with a

My colleague Matt DeLong reports that McCain aide Randy Scheuemann doesn’t give an eff what the allegedly sovereign government of Iraq thinks about getting our

Congress this year is on a tear against bad behavior in the corporate world. Lawmakers have passed credit card reforms to protect Americans from the worst

As the GOP presidential field in Iowa continues to fluctuate wildly between flavor-of-the-month candidates like Texas Gov. Rick Perry and U.S