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The Charleston Daily Mail had a long sit-down interview with Don Blankenship, the head of Virginia-based Massey Energy, which owns the Upper Big Branch Mine

CNN has just released a poll that found 52 percent of Americans, according to a new CNN poll, say Afghanistan has turned into a situation like the U.S. faced

Next year’s defense bill pretty much demolishes the Obama administration’s jury-rigged plan to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by exporting

As Politico’s Jonathan Martin reports, Sen. John McCain appears to have an aversion to campaigning on weekends. According to Martin, the McCain campaign has

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan -– Demonstrating the unconventional approach taken by the Human Terrain Team, the team recently interviewed 25

The political animals that roam Mayor Richard Daley’s City Hall are pragmatic deal-makers above all else, including ideology. They would rather win you over than roll you over. Power politics is a bipartisan affair in the Windy City.

In memory of Sen. Ted Kennedy, TWI has compiled its recent coverage of the senator and the effect his passing will have on the country.

Not even a third of the nation’s lowest-income children receive dental care, and Congress isn’t doing a thing about it.

The incredibly successful, punchy conservative messaging firm -- one year ago, it was dumping negative ads into the NY-20 special election -- is back with an

The jubilant postings on the Facebook page “ We Don’t Want Donald Trump to Drive the Indy 500 Pace Car ” tell the story: “Awesome news!” and “VICTORY!” and “Na-na-na-na. Hey, hey, hey.

Asked at the George Washington University forum about whether the Obama administration was effectively undermining the Iranian opposition by negotiating with

The Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Monday that they’ve reached a partial settlement in a court case involving an Islamic public charter school that blurred the lines between church and state. The case, which has been going on for more than two years, has drawn a lightning-storm of controversy that had Christian conservatives and church-state watchdogs fighting alongside one another

President Obama will meet today with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the subject of the Keystone XL pipeline, still under consideration for approval by the State Department, will almost certainly be a topic of conversation. The Keystone XL pipeline would carry highly polluting Canadian tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada all the way to refineries on the Gulf Coast. Environmental groups argue that the pipeline is unnecessary and a threat to ecosystems in the wake of the million gallon oil spill here in Michigan last July

Today at the Heritage Foundation, legal experts debated the merits of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision -- with Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the liberal wing

According to E!, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) called Miss California Carrie Prejean to buck her up after her gay marriage-driven loss in the Miss USA

Over at The Huffington Post, Sam Stein has a piece on something kind-of-but-not-totally-similar to a piece I’m working on: progressive-Jewish reactions to Gaza.

It’s not exactly Perrier-pricey, but pretty damn close, according to opponents of the massive proposed Flaming Gorge pipeline project that would pump water out of the Green River in southwest Wyoming and suck it back over the Continental Divide to Colorado’s Front Range. Fort Collins developer Aaron Million recently revised his plans for the project and re-filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), according to the Fort Collins Coloradoan . Million had been seeking approval of the project from the U.S

In a section of the 2004 CIA inspector general report about interrogation techniques that were used on detainees by the CIA but never approved by the Justice

The news that was circulating through the Arabic-language press yesterday has now been confirmed by Human Rights Watch, The Washington Post reports. According