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The American Civil Liberties Union has just released a video of interviews with five former Guantanamo detainees, talking about their experiences of abuse in

With the financial crisis deepening, the FHA must be revitalized immediately -- and there’s no Plan B.

I’ve been writing for weeks now that President Obama’s approach to Af-Pak is a counterinsurgency strategy to meet a counterterrorism objective. And -- just

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (Pic by Fibonacci Blue, via Wikimedia Commons) Though all of the current Republican presidential hopefuls have touted their pro-life stances in recent months, perhaps none have been as vocal as Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. During an Iowa campaign stop yesterday, Bachmann took a tour of the Informed Choices Medical Clinic, a crisis pregnancy center founded by Pastor Brad Sherman in 2007.

Here I was, reading through the transcript of yesterday’s White House briefing on swine flu, thinking Why is John Brennan, the senior White House adviser for

Even with public anger at banks reaching new levels, Rep. Barney Frank can’t ignore the powerful finance industry.

A few weeks ago, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, gave conservatives a flicker of hope for a high-profile

Musing on Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s speech Saturday about the mutually distorting relationship between unsustainable defense budgets and political

Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of seven same-sex couples and their children alleging that New Jersey’s civil unions law does not satisfy a

Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) continues to buy ads in the Des Moines network TV market, with spots scheduled to run through Nov.

While the public battle to stop Eric Holder’s confirmation as attorney general still lacks the heat of those faced by his predecessors, Alberto Gonzales and

In an interview with Adam Serwer of The American Prospect, Ken Gude of the Center for American Progress says that the September 14, 2001 congressional

We might be on the verge of a major breakthrough with the Taliban. As I’ve been noting, the Karzai government in Afghanistan has been putting out feelers to the

<p>Eight years on, John McCain is the victim of another vile smear in South Carolina by something calling itself Vietnam Veterans Against McCain. (They

The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for South Florida has been placed on administrative leave pending a child pornography investigation.

The plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to streamline mortgage modifications for troubled homeowners has already come in for some harsh criticism. Federal

Phoenix radio station KFYI tweets that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has signed the controversial immigration bill, Senate bill 1070, into law. The state now has

The danger, said President George W. Bush on Sept. 25, 2002, is that Al Qaeda becomes an extension of Saddam’s madness and his hatred and his capacity to

Scenes of massive immigration raids in the Iowa communities of Postville and Marshalltown have faded from the public’s collective memory, and current federal officials appear to want to keep it that way.

Earlier this month, former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee took a stage in the coal country of Southwest Virginia and, stumping for Republican