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Michael Cohen at Democracy Arsenal thinks it is: f the Iraq war showed us anything it is that untested and unquestioned assumptions can lead to disastrous

President Obama was pretty subdued when talking about Iraq last night at his press conference last night. We just saw an election in Iraq that went relatively

Bay Buchanan, whom I interviewed this week about troubled anti-immigration activist Marcus Epstein, has published a fuller account of his problems and a

A brainstorming session between two conservative activists spurred the strategy to convince voters not to trust their legislators on health care.

Special-needs students are more likely than other students to be bullied in school, according to a recent report published by AbilityPath.org, an online

In Florida politics, self-funded candidates are faring well in the polls, with the multi-millionaire political neophytes Jeff Greene, running as a Democrat for

Back in April, Brian Beutler reported that Top Conservatives on Twitter—the grassroots group consisting of anyone who used the Twitter hashtag #tcot — was

The Iranian opposition movement has been brutally suppressed by a regime that has traded legitimacy for control. Facing dire straits, what’s left for it to do?

In a new paper released today, entitled How the Great Recession Was Brought to an End, prominent economists Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi say that the stimulus,

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is still sitting on a handful of oil companies’ requests for tax refunds on new pollution control equipment —

The hearings are back underway ... Here’s Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), back in full effect. He wants to know about prosecutions for interrogators, which CIA

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at the press briefing today that Republicans pushing for hearings on the citizenship of American-born children are

Speaking for the first time since receiving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama accepted the honor while outlining some of the goals he still hopes to

Manuel Guerra — an undocumented immigrant who supports the DREAM Act, and whose deportation case was recently canceled — has earned the backing of some conservatives in Indiantown, Fla. # The DREAM Act would grant people who entered the U.S

More on that new provision in the intelligence authorization bill pushing disclosure on the efficacy of torture. The measure was proposed by Sen. Kit Bond

The White House program designed to prevent foreclosures by paying banks to alter loans voluntarily isn’t doing nearly enough to keep struggling borrowers in their homes, several powerful Democrats charged Wednesday.

As congressional Republicans continue to warn that the Democrats’ health reform plans would put government bureaucrats between you and your doctor, Rep.

My TWI colleague, Ari Melber, raises an interesting point in response to a comment Sen. John McCain made in that interview with the editorial board of The Des

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We reported yesterday that the Senate intelligence committee is planning an investigation of the CIA’s interrogation tactics, including a probe of the use of