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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

Although some prominent Illinoisans have come out strongly in favor of the plan to transfer some Guantanamo Bay detainees to the largely vacant Thomson

The Environmental Protection Agency issued its long-awaited endangerment finding today, formalizing its conclusion that greenhouse gases -- and the resulting

Speaking at a Labor Day event in Milwaukee, Wis., President Barack Obama unveiled a new stimulus package designed to jump-start the economy before the November

Small Wars Journal has a copy of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s guidance to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force troops on how the Afghanistan war

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Former Army interrogator Damien Corsetti, dressed in a dark sweater, white shirt and dark tie, is testifying remotely on behalf of Omar Khadr,

I spent the morning at a lecture delivered by Aftab Sherpao, a former Pakistani interior minister whom Islamic extremists have recently been trying to

South Florida construction workers tell The Florida Independent that about 40 to 45 men, after weeks of being stiffed out of their wages, were paid with checks issued by Florida Shell Construction at the Northwest Gardens worksite on Thursday.

One of the final events of the Values Voter Summit was a Saturday breakout session on the new masculinity, a wide-ranging topic that one speaker used to

Despite the massive GOP party happening in Ames this weekend, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson has other places to be. Specifically, he’ll be riding his mountain bike along a 100-mile course in Colorado, billed as a “ race across the sky .” Of course, the announcement, made by his campaign Tuesday, comes as little surprise.

What you’ll end up doing is opening up the firehose to full blast, said one member of the intelligence community. They’re barely able to handle what they have right now.

This Benjamin Sarlin piece on right-wing delight at Al Franken’s Senate win in Minnesota is ... strange. Al Franken is a very tempting target because he is so

This is the beginning of an assessment written by Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn, the senior-most intelligence adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, for the Center for a

Prediction time. When the definitive history of the Bush administration’s prosecution of the Iraq war is written, its attempt to force the Iraqi government to

The battle in Colorado over the shape of next decade’s congressional districts continues.

One big surprise and one cruise to victory in the Beehive State, as attorney Mike Lee scored an upset victory in the state’s Republican Senate primary and

Scott Bloch, director of the Office of Special Counsel, is now set to resign, effective Jan. 5. Bloch has drawn some unwanted attention to the federal agency

One of the things I most anticipate about the next four years is how the cohort that so massively proved that they can’t be trusted to run or assess U.S.

In a speech to the Center for a New American Security, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy shed light on the approach she’d take as Pentagon chief.

As the Senate takes up debate on climate legislation, environmental groups slam a biofuels provision.

The McCain campaign’s responses to the events of the last two days have revealed much about its strategy for dealing with crises. This strategy can be easily