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Richard Holbrooke made a forceful, unequivocal and wide-ranging endorsement of the Pakistani president in his first appearance before Congress in his new job.

Last month, RNC Chairman Michael Steele called the race a “battle royale” that could give the party a crucial win. But last week, polls showed the race tightening.

After weeks of threats, arguments and a secret session thrown in for good measure, the House on Friday passed a controversial bill to renew the administration’s

This is curious: twice in two weeks Politico has given rather sensational headlines to stories, then changed them later in the day. The original headline for

<p>Yesterday, on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Joe Lieberman <a title="compared"

The Senate Armed Services Committee voted yesterday to send the nomination of Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.) to become the next Army secretary to the full Senate,

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), after having pledged support to the strategy articulated by his presidential rival, gets upset over the July 2011 transition

Even as the emerging consensus among Washington prognosticators is that Republicans will have a tough political time opposing President Obama’s choice of Sonia

God it feels good to be back in D.C., where I don’t have to worry about getting shot in a Chinook or blown up by a cross-dressing Taliban. It appears, however,

In order to learn more about the mysterious prolonged diapering technique formerly employed by the CIA -- possibly the technique nebulously referred to in the

The Department of Justice said earlier this month the Gulf Coast Claims Facility’s pace in compensating victims of the Gulf oil spill is unacceptable. In a

It’s not just Mohammed Jawad. In 2007, U.S. courts blocked Khalid el-Masri, a German citizen who was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA in Afghanistan in a

Faced with huge backlogs in immigration proceedings, Immigration and Customs Services adopted a new policy last week to cancel the deportation of thousands of

Via The Hill, Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the most centrist Democrat in the Senate, has introduced legislation requiring that any unused funds from the $26.1

UPDATE: Aug. 10, 2011, 3:15 p.m., with a correction Peter LaBarbera’s Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) last week launched a campaign to prevent

The Texas Railroad Commission, which oversees surface coal mining, asked Attorney General Greg Abbott back in August to step in and sue the U.S. Environmental

<p><a href="http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=3b95b82c-fa7a-4d8c-b5cb-ebc4a8a8d038&amp;p=1">Leon Wieseltier</a> on the

It’s really, really, really difficult to be optimistic about cutting Pentagon waste. There is a massive amount of entrenched interests -- in the services, on

This weekend, I went to a wedding in Connecticut and, on the drive from Greenwich to Hartford, in the middle of the state, was surprised to see Linda McMahon’s

The former AEI fellow is taking his firing in pretty good spirits. From a party invitation going out to friends:

Here’s how history gets rewritten: Last week, the Senate killed legislation to create a bipartisan panel designed to tackle the country’s skyrocketing debt.

The powerful conservative nonprofit brought together state legislators and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry to craft model legislation that has gained considerable momentum.

Here’s a rigorously reported piece on the history of the relationship between the United States and Afghan President Hamid Karzai -- as you’ll see from the