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After much delay and speculation, the Obama administration has reportedly decided to try the alleged co-conspirators of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in

Throughout the February and March debates about Afghanistan, I wrote what I understood the emerging Obama administration approach to be: a counterinsurgency

A new poll by Public Policy Polling released Friday shows that if the election were held in late October, a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage,

The administration is taking a bifurcated approach toward resuscitating the American auto industry, simultaneously allocating $5 billion to the auto parts

As TWI’s lightning-fast national security reporter Spencer Ackerman just wrote, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence just formally announced what we’ve

Jonathan Chait has a good, long review of three books about the New Deal that can be read next to my story last month on the influence of Amity Shlaes and her

A key provision of Ohio’s anti-collective-bargaining law, Senate Bill 5, is that public employers have the right to make (PDF) “any and all reasonable rules

U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, the Republican who beat out Democrat John Salazar in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District last year, is taking some political heat of late for trying to save $15,000 in federal funding on a mass transit project in the Roaring Fork Valley while simultaneously declining to oppose more than $16 billion in tax breaks for oil and gas companies reaping record profits.

The Catholic Conference of Illinois has found itself in a public relations imbroglio after making derogatory statements about a rape-crisis counselor who will

The Bush administration called its warrantless surveillance efforts very, very important to protect the national security of this country, in the words of

Here’s the response of Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, to this morning’s news that some military defense lawyers

GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons) This weekend’s Florida Tea Party Convention failed to draw many of the GOP candidates invited to participate: Out of the eight GOP presidential candidates, only Rick Santorum showed up to speak. Convention organizers invited a slew of speakers to talk about tea party-favored topics, such as Agenda 21 and the supposed “radicalization of Islam” in the U.S., and had scheduled a discussion among GOP presidential candidates.

Citizens United, a conservative political group based in Washington, D.C., is making independent expenditures in Senate District 18 just days before a Nov. 8 special election to decide the balance of power in the Iowa Senate.

Appearing in Cannon Falls, Minn., yesterday, President Barack Obama was asked about legalizing medical marijuana. His answer was beyond vague and not entirely supportive

Democrats in both houses of Congress plan to reintroduce the DREAM Act, legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for immigrants brought to the United States illegally by their parents.

The two cities hosting this summer’s national party conventions -- Denver and St. Paul -- have surprisingly long-standing roles in the political histrionics

A study that could have far-reaching implications on birth control regimens around the world has found an increased risk of HIV transmission for women on injection hormone therapies with an HIV-positive partner.. The Lancet Infectious Disease Journal published the study Monday

The New York Times reports: The concern with the method BP chose, the document said, was that if the cement around the casing pipe did not seal properly, gases

The BP Deepwater Horizon spill pumping oil into the Gulf of Mexico looks certain to damage local service economies while leaving the energy industry unscathed,

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The first state communities are beginning to opt out of Secure Communities, a fingerprint-sharing program between local police and federal immigration

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