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Douglas Kmiec announced Sunday he will resign from his post as the U.S. ambassador to Malta following the release of a State Department report (PDF)

Rep. John Kline, chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, is one of five sponsors of a bill that would continue a controversial religious school voucher program in Washington, D.C.. The program, which was launched for a five-year trial in 2003, was found to have failed to improve student achievement in the district, but did have a benefit for social conservatives — it helped fund religious education in the nation’s capitol city

The shooting yesterday at University of Texas-Austin provides a good example of how funding emergency preparedness efforts improves safety. The Austin-American

Ex-FBI agent Ali Soufan’s account of the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah is roughly this: he and several other interrogators from both FBI and CIA objected to the

It’s been a year since I really started covering the birther movement in earnest -- the news, at the time, was the movement’s ability to get Obama eligibility

WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- If there was any doubt that Democrats view the special election in NY-23 as a chance to take on the conservative movement, former New York

Michael Kinsley, managing editor of The Atlantic Wire, is annoyed with Paul Krugman’s latest column in The New York Times, which he calls patronizing for its

John McCormack had the news first. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has largely stayed away from candidate endorsements this year, swung for the fences

Zachary Roth at TPM Muckraker has a terrific roundup on how hyped-up fears of voter fraud in swing states never came to pass. The secretaries of state in

Much of the buzz about the late Robert Byrd’s (D-W.Va.) Senate replacement has revolved around what the appointment will mean for the Democrats’ economic

A month ago, The Persecution of Sarah Palin author Matthew Continetti argued that Sarah Palin’s lousy poll numbers didn’t matter because maybe, just maybe,

I missed the 60 Minutes interview with President Obama yesterday, but The New York Times gives me the highlight reel. On Afghanistan: “There’s got to be

The Republican primary to replace U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) is already crowded despite Hutchison’s announcement that she will not seek re-election in

TWI reader ajm8127 wrote in this afternoon with a thought on the insurance industry: For profit health care insurance providers are a conflict of

We knew it on Friday, when Bill Kristol praised President Obama’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, but the degree to which neoconservatives are

As the economy sinks toward recession and increased regulation gains support, lawmakers aim to tackle the elusive, unregulated derivatives market, with a focus on credit default swaps.

And the walkback of the year award goes to ... Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger! Less than 24 hours after he told National Public Radio that

Many foreign policy experts wonder whether a Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would reach beyond loyalists to bring in progressive Obama supporters after an acrimonious primary season.

If you’re spending yet another day keeping an eye on falling stock markets and hoping against a catastrophic collapse of global markets by this afternoon, it’s