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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, which is conducting its own investigation into the CIA and torture,

In his quick-turnaround book Right Now, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is notably less kind to former House candidate Dede Scozzafava

Ohio Governor John Kasich told reporters on Monday he was glad the fuss surrounding the veto referendum to repeal Senate Bill 5 had kept the pressure off the

This morning, our Minnesota colleague Paul Schmeltzer noted that a conservative attack line that the coverage of Ted Kennedy’s death would be a “Wellstone

Last week, J.P. Morgan announced that it made a first-quarter profit of $3.3 billion on revenue of $28.2 billion, meaning for every dollar of business the bank

It may come a surprise to some that the government has tougher safety standards for Cocoa Puffs than for Marlboros, but under current law, the Food and Drug

According to records from the U.S. Department of Education, Florida State University is experiencing high numbers of on-campus rape. # The Tallahassee-based school is one of three schools in the state’s capital with high rates.

Measured in crowds, PAC dollars and poll numbers, midterm elections are showcases of popularity for potential presidential candidates. Pawlenty, the governor of

A high-minded campaign won’t defeat GOP tactics.

In his third GOP presidential debate Gov. Rick Perry had a way of fumbling and tripping over words. But it was a familiar issue, and perhaps the most articulate

It really helps to have metrics when stuff like this happens. Yesterday The Wall Street Journal published a story on all of the ways in which Gen. Stanley

The Senate is back to amending Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform proposal today. Here is a list of pending amendments that might come up

And here’s Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the Afghanistan war, testifying for the first time since his June congressional hearings. He praised an

Ben Smith unearths a classic 11th-hour attack from Republicans against then-Democratic nominee for Congress Parker Griffith.

Zachary Roth has a short write-up on Michael Zak, the amateur historian who wrote the Heroes section of the new GOP.com, which focuses to a confusing degree

We finally had a sense they were listening, one advocate says of the White House shift in tone.

So, OK, Saudi Arabia has a pretty impressive deradicalization program. But would deradicalization work in Pakistan? Doubtful, says Kenneth Ballen of an

From The Minnesota Independent: No Republican contenders in the 2010 gubernatorial contest — except environmental activist Leslie Davis — believe in global

This seems to have flown mostly under the radar, but on Tuesday, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the sharpest Democratic critics of a public option, told The

McFaul falls well below the radar in terms of staffers, but he holds a portfolio of tremendous importance: the reset button on U.S.-Russian relations. As

ASPEN, Colo.--The climate is an historically awful one for Republicans, Nicolle Wallace said. It’s just terrible. Wallace, the communications