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It might be going on five months since the Obama administration pledged to develop metrics ... that give you an idea of our success rate in Afghanistan, as

This is rather shocking, particularly for me, as a graduate of the Arizona public university system. The Huffington Post’s Dawn Teo reports that, despite being

One thing that’s not conference-related: The New York Times reports that John Brennan, the controversial ex-CIA official who abruptly withdrew as Barack Obama’s

Matthew Yglesias, making another version of his argument that the multiple veto points in the legislative branch overly empower the minority and make America

<p>The people who know Ed Rendell best aren&rsquo;t surprised when he speaks his mind. But Rendell&rsquo;s candor might have come as a shock to

I asked Peter Galbraith, the deputy head of the United Nations’ mission to Afghanistan who was deposed for supporting a more rigorous U.N. role in opposing vote

In the days after the 2008 election, I fretted over the inclusion of a former senior CIA official named Jami Miscik on the Obama transition team’s intelligence

Tom Donnelly and Gary Schmitt of the American Enterprise Institute, members in good standing of the neoconservative cabal to eat your babies and conquer the

Faking a marriage to get a green card? Be careful what you say on Facebook: Federal immigration authorities may use social networks to determine whether

President-elect Barack Obama today announced the creation of a new position to work in conjunction with the Office of Management and Budget to increase the

According to McClatchy, six years after the Keating Five scandal, Sen. John McCain pressured U.S. Forest Service employees to approve a potentially lucrative

Bill Kristol speaks to American Jewry: As we recited this on Saturday, I couldn’t help but reflect that a distressingly small number of my fellow Jews seem

The FDA has intensified its checks on produce coming into the United States since the Salmonella stpaul outbreak began, and has put 17 firms on notice that they

The Club for Growth is the latest big conservative group to get up on the airwaves during the general election, announcing yesterday the release of five attack

Another day, another Dianne Feinstein statement that doesn’t express enthusiasm for Panetta: I have been contacted by both President-elect Obama and Vice

The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility released its report on professional misconduct over torture authorized by ex-Justice officials

OK, it’s officially NATO-in-Afghanistan Day at The Streak. Matthew Yglesias notes the hawkishness of Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, and