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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on Face the Nation Sunday that -- like most Republicans and even some Democrats, including some in the president’s cabinet --

This weekend, TWI sister site The Michigan Messenger spoke with Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), a gubernatorial hopeful, about his involvement in the famed C

A reader over at TPM flags a very revealing quote from an anonymous Bush administration official in a New York Times article about the state of the government’s

Reuters reports that Afghanistan’s parliament quietly passed a blanket amnesty for human-rights abuses committed before the fall of the Taliban. A war widow

A victory for the Obama administration: As expected, the United Nations Security Council just voted to place new economic sanctions on Iran. Months of doubt

There’s not really much of a way that a secretary of defense can play a role in the health care fight. But Robert Gates last night sent out a statement letting

The ballroom was packed for Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) CPAC speech -- the doors were shut for a good 30 minutes before the speech began. And to the strains of

I haven’t blogged much on the yo mama contest between the Democratic National Committee and the National Republican Campaign Committee, but it’s been

When most people shell out for cable service, they expect to get some basic channels -- especially since, in most areas, cable companies operate with little or

Californians seem to be growing more accepting of immigrants, according to a Los Angeles Times/USC poll released this weekend. Among likely voters, 59 percent

With her 20 minute “Story of Stuff” web-video, Annie Leonard explained some of the downside of consumerism to a lot of Americans. Now with her “Story of Citizens United” video, she explains why she and many others believe the corporate personhood extended by the 2010 Citizens United vs FEC Supreme Court decision threatens the U.S. democratic system of government.

Greg Sargent reports that the GOP may yet come up with a way to satisfy the Tea Party’s demands for representation among the Republican leadership. How? By

Josh Gerstein reports on a speech Attorney General Eric Holder gave today: Lawyers who accept professional responsibility to protect the rule of law and the

A senior Senate source emails with this preview of what to expect in the chamber’s energy bill, which is expected to take shape in the coming weeks. The

Weekly initial jobless claims fell to 460,000, down 14,000 from the prior week, the Labor Department announced this morning. Economists had expected

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee asks Secretary Gates about the speed of our force drawdown in Iraq and our force

So say White House and BP officials, who warned today that it might be July before they’re able to plug the leak that’s spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The

According to Eason Jordan at subscription-only IraqSlogger, the Maliki government is charging shoe-throwing journalist Muntader al-Zaidi with insulting the