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Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) has spent several months trying to draw attention to the issue of whether the census will be fair -- that is, whether it will

The American Federation for Children’s insistence that it is a bipartisan education group took a hit today when it was revealed to be one of three school

The news that Democrats in the House and Senate will likely marry their health reform bills in closed-door sessions -- not in a formal conference committee --

Three days and four hearings on the ground views of Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy have just ended. And there are still a number of questions that have gone

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released draft findings in its ongoing investigation of contaminated well water near natural gas drilling in Pavillion, Wyo. The draft report “indicates detection of synthetic chemicals … consistent with gas production and hydraulic fracturing fluids.” Louis Meeks’ well water near Pavillion, Wyo., contains methane gas, hydrocarbons, lead and copper (Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica)

We ran a piece this morning examining some lawmakers’ concerns about the future of the $2 billion that was plucked from a renewable energy loan guarantee

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary-general of the NATO alliance, told an audience at Georgetown University today that this year the alliance’s military

TWI’s David Weigel went head-to-head with The American Prospect’s Tim Fernholz on bloggingheads.tv yesterday, discussing a wide range of topics, from the

For a random person with no role in the presidential election, William Ayers has drawn plenty of political attention lately. We try to focus on real issues

As a dramatic feature, yesterday’s high-profile health care summit in Washington was a flop. That is, for all the breathtaking headlines inspired by the

Following up on my earlier post on the FBI’s longstanding problems with putting terror suspects on its terror watchlist, I just got off the phone with FBI

It’s not the five years of additional funding many advocates were hoping for, but the Senate’s compromise on health reform does include money to extend the

For most of the Republican presidential contenders, Occupy Wall Street and its assorted spin-offs such as Occupy Denver are bad news. Occupiers have been characterized essentially as lazy bums and their message as a cry for class warfare

Tom Tancredo does an interview with the Dutch paper Handelsblad -- which treats him, credulously, as a Tea Party prominent -- and drops the hammer on his

Sen. Barack Obama is off the campaign trail, but his top aides are running hard today. Obama’s senior strategists held a national news conference by

With all the news about partially nationalizing banks, and with the candidates rolling out new economic proposals and facing off in a debate tonight over their

Michael Zak, the historian who wrote the biographies of famous black Republicans on the GOP’s Heroes page, has an op-ed at Big Government comparing ACORN’s

While Planned Parenthood of Indiana lost its injunction Wednesday against a brand-new Indiana law -- signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels on Tuesday -- that strips

The Teapot Party has retracted its endorsement of of Gary Johnson for president in 2012. The political party, founded by country legend and marijuana legalization advocate Willie Nelson, explained the confusion surrounding the endorsement on the party’s blog

At his oil spill hearing today, Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) questioned Obama administration officials about their testing of Gulf seafood. Markey, the House

Do you know a guy named... K-I-R-I-A-K-O-U, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) asks Ali Soufan, referring to a former CIA official who alleged that -- at an