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Speaking at the Center for American Progress, Afghanistan’s foreign minister, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, made a full-throated plea for the United States not to back

The Democratic National Committee is keeping up its attacks on skeptical voters showing up at congressional town halls, using this week to define them the way

It’s worth noting: Despite the new EPA scrutiny (and potential repeal) of the Bush-era permit approving the largest mountaintop coal mine in West Virginia’s

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking at Tehran University for Friday prayers, says the elections are fair and the protests have gone far

RIP, Robert McNamara. Nothing you ever did after Vietnam zeroed the balance. So when will Errol Morris make his Rumsfeld documentary?

The RNC’s research arm, not distracted by scandal, is still firing away at its target. Today’s best oppo dump: a bunch of quotes (and reported quotes) from

Check out politics reporter Sridhar Pappu’s first piece for TWI, where he explores McCain’s ongoing struggle to rally the GOP base.

TPM has been all over the bizarre John Perry military coup against Obama column at Newsmax.com--an incredibly popular conservative site, as I discovered in my

LYNCHBURG, Va. --They would have been the perfect couple, a marriage of experience and candor and simple toughness with the young avatar of the hopes and dreams

After strong criticism Talisman Energy, a Pennsylvania gas hydrofracking company, has pulled a children’s coloring book it had put out a few weeks ago to convince people that fracking was a perfectly safe practice. The Washington Post reports : A natural gas drilling company says it’s no longer distributing a children’s coloring book featuring a hard hat-wearing dinosaur that’s been criticized by a Massachusetts congressman and lampooned by Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert… Critics called the coloring book’s depiction of land before and after drilling overly rosy. The post-drilling image adds a rainbow and an eagle to the scene where the hydraulic fracturing drilling process took place

I’m just starting to dig through an advance copy of The Promise, Jonathan Alter’s new book on President Obama’s first year in office, set for publication on

In April, we ran a piece about how some Democrats had bowed to the wishes of the banking industry and delayed their credit card reforms until next year, even as

Bringing a little class to the NBA finals, thinkb4youspeak is running public service announcements during the games, with athletes, including Phoenix Suns star Grant Hill, letting sports fans know that saying “that’s so gay” or using words like “fag” and “queer” as pejoratives is just not OK. The GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) Sports Project is working with high schools and high school athletes around the country to educate kids on showing respect toward people of all sexual orientations.

This week, Campaign for Healthy Denver activists, dressed in infectious disease masks, turned in 12,000 petition signatures for a ballot initiative that would give paid sick days to Denver workers. The group has collected three times the nearly 4000 signatures required and the Denver City Clerk now has 25 days to certify them

A group of Democrats in the U.S. Senate have written to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that the State Department extend their review of the Keystone XL pipeline project.

Eight years after it was passed, the USA Patriot Act remains among the most controversial pieces of counterterrorism legislation in the so-called “war on terror.”

A recent Salon article exploring the “surprisingly warm” relationship between Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the Muslim community leans on the Republican

Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) tonight became the second incumbent in a week to be ousted by his own party, losing to state Sen. Mike Oliverio 56-44 percent in

It’s been almost exactly 18 months since Philip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania lawyer and Hillary Clinton supporter, filed a lawsuit demanding that his state keep

That’s the apparently sincere wish of Larry Kudlow: With so many weak-kneed leaders in business and politics today, Gregg has just provided an incredibly

Comedy Central host and super PAC architect Stephen Colbert considered Gov. Rick Perry’s entry into the “embarrassment… of riches” that makes up the