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Is it better to be a child stuck indefinitely at the Guantanamo Bay prison, or to stand trial by military commission? Neither option sounds very good. But

Not to contradict Spencer, but I have to note at least a couple of caveats to the high praise for President Obama’s sweeping first acts in office. First, as

Today, TWI rolled out some design changes. We are trying to make the site clearer and cleaner. We know we are throwing a lot of information at you all at once,

Jon Michael Turner’s story of serving as a Marine in Iraq was documented here by a team of video journalists on behalf of The Washington Independent. Turner

Losing the people of Afghanistan will cost the United States the war, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said before a Senate panel Tuesday.

Public Policy Polling’s ongoing survey of American attitudes about presidential conspiracy theories continues with a fascinating look at the birther and

If there’s been one cardinal Bush administration tenet for negotiations, it’s been Not To Negotiate With Yourself. In practice, that’s meant presenting your

I didn’t get many specifics from Pentagon when I asked about alternatives to the soon-to-be-lost Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan for resupplying U.S. troops in

The clamor surrounding Obama’s interview with Jeffrey Goldberg continues. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), took the "constant sore"

OK, so the Kyrgyz Parliament has kicked the U.S. military out of the Manas airbase logistics hub. It’s not over, do you understand? Do you get it? Nothing’s

As federal battles over medical marijuana across the country heat up, a statement from one federal agency may be a huge asset for medical marijuana dispensaries

For your viewing pleasure, Ana Marie Cox files her third video piece of the evning:

There may be nothing more disturbing than accidentally running into a broadcast of Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN. But there I was at the gym last night, captive to

A coalition of groups that oppose the building of the Keystone XL pipeline is calling on President Obama to remove the State Department from the process of deciding whether to approve the project.

Medicine Hat News reports on a speech Sarah Palin gave in Calgary (tickets as low as $150), where a folksy monologue took a shocking turn -- an admission about

A number of Republican presidential candidates are raising money for family policy councils, state-based religious-right groups affiliated with the Family

DES MOINES — Pastor Cary Gordon was sure many of the people who heard him speak last week at the west steps of the Capitol for the “Let Us Vote” rally thought the main reason they were there was to protest same-sex marriage.

It is one of the ironies of this election year that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is likely to be the Democratic presidential nominee thanks in large part to

From the Washington Post: An investigative report scheduled for release Wednesday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee cites U.S. concern over as many as