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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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

This afternoon, President Obama signed the $26.1 billion state aid bill into law -- meaning local governments will get some immediate fiscal relief. The bill is

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

For all the criticisms Republicans are lobbing at the House Democrats’ plan to pass the Senate health care reform bill without actually passing the Senate

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 U.S. Department of Homeland Security is trying to come with a new system that would make it harder for illegal immigrants to fake legal working status,

In the wake of the arrest of two Americans , U.S.

At a mid-day press conference on Capitol Hill, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) launched a Declaration of Health Care Independence