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Steve Clemons looks at the high-profile globetrotting of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden and asks: What about Bob? Gates

It took, oh, a couple hours for conservative outrage -- that CIA officials would face criminal charges for the criminal act of torture -- to successfully derail

One of the Bush administration’s many efforts to hobble the nation’s environmental protections occurred in 2005, when President George W. Bush lifted a

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) wants to know: There are 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, partnered with 1,500 Afghan soldiers. Does that make

A North Florida man suspected of pipe-bombing a Jacksonville mosque almost a year ago was shot and killed by FBI agents in Oklahoma last night.

A late addition to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) energy and oil spill response bill has galvanized Republicans against the proposal. Reid, in an

After Matt Corley of ThinkProgress picked up my post about Jason Mattera’s tongue-in-cheek ghetto joke about Sonia Sotomayor, Mattera posted a response at

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For my piece today I present a number of progressive agenda-items for a new counterterrorism policy. But naturally I couldn’t include everything that my

President Obama and the Democrats are both kicking their midterm election efforts into a higher gear today. The President held a fundraiser for the Democratic

Party tactics trumped seniority. Democrats take a bold step as Henry Waxman, who is far more in line with the president-elect’s agenda, replaces John Dingell as chairman of one of the most powerful House committees.

During periods of one-party government, when Democrats controlled both the White House and the Congress, history shows that they have not shifted radically toward a leftward agenda.

This was murky earlier today, when I wrote about the size of Sarah Palin’s fee for speaking at the Tea Party Convention, but it’s been confirmed. The former

In late January, accusations started flying that former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) campaign had concocted a story that its Website had crashed after a

According to a report released by the Guttmacher Institute yesterday, abortion rates in the U.S. have dropped in the past decade among almost every subgroup of women – except for the impoverished. From the years 2000 to 2008, low-income women accounted for 42.4 percent of abortions.

Staff for the national oil spill commission released preliminary conclusions today regarding the cause of the April 20 Macondo well blowout, which led

Northwestern economist Robert Gordon brings the gloom: belongs to the committee of distinguished economists who officially declared on Sept. 20 that the

Tom Murse reports on a town hall meeting held by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) where the congressman chastised his own side. One thing I think is being misrepresented

In the wake of yesterday’s news that long-time conservative columnist Robert Novak is retiring pending treatment for brain cancer, most reports today are