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People who haven’t voted in six years or have received drivers licenses in other states will be subject to extra scrutiny under a package of Republican election reforms introduced this week. Sen.

Mike Duncan has ended his bid for another term as RNC chairman, telling the hall that the winds of change are blowing in the party, and endorsing no one. Ohio

Lietzau will be central to decisions about trying the remaining Guantanamo detainees in reformed military commissions or in federal courts, and to the construction of a new terrorism detention policy.

Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas), perhaps best known for threatening that his state may secede from the union, issued a press release today in which he declared Texas

Obama seeks to cultivate ties with groups within the American Jewish and Arab-American communities to support a two-state solution.

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced by a party-line vote Thursday legislation that would repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act. All the the

Christiane Amanpour is accused of mourning the Taliban. Rand Paul goes soft on cutting agriculture subsidies. There will be a mosque near Ground

World magazine reports that Lynn Vincent, the Catholic publication’s features editor, will co-write Sarah Palin’s memoirs. I’m familiar with Vincent’s work from

As part of the war-funding deal reached yesterday between House and Senate negotiators, Detroit’s automakers found a $1 billion gift: The launch of a

Last week, we showed you a discussion of Elana Kagan’s upcoming confirmation battle in the Senate. Yesterday, top conservatives who work on Supreme Court

Current proposals could even prevent legal immigrants from obtaining health care.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) has announced that he will travel to Phoenix to oppose Arizona Senate bill 1070 at a rally at the State Capitol this

Despite the media and political attention paid to strategic default, we actually don’t know that much about it. The phenomenon is as old as the Great

The Justice Department informed a federal district court Wednesday that it was no longer seeking to rely on coerced and tortured evidence in the habeas corpus

Libertarian TV journalist John Stossel gives readers of Reason magazine a preview of his new series on Fox Business Channel. He confesses that he has a special

John, an eighth grader at the time, gives another student on school grounds a candy bar. He is spotted by a security guard and told he now faces suspension.

This idea that voter discontent has left all incumbents vulnerable in November is a reporter’s dream. It’s clean. It’s easy. But is that really what happened

Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, is aiming to bring it home today. In Canton, Ohio, he will deliver what aides call the campaign’s seminal closing

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 22, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER REVIEW