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Looking for a one-stop shop for everything President George W. Bush did wrong in the security arena? The progressive National Security Network has you

Last year, the Obama campaign promised to deliver a major speech on U.S.-Muslim relations in a Muslim capital during the president’s first year in office.

The stock-market crashes around the world are not symptoms of the disease but the cure. The disease is the excessive debt and leverage in the global financial system -- especially in the United States, Britain, Spain and Australia. The cure is the reduction of the level of debt.

Joby Warrick and Peter Finn’s Washington Post account of the 2002 torture of Abu Zubaydah is the most detailed and nuanced journalistic report to date of how

As Spencer noted, in responding to a federal judge’s order to turn over another batch of documents including President George W. Bush’s authorization of CIA

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a push for Hispanic voters Tuesday by arguing Republicans are to blame for the Senate’s inability to move forward with

For a forthcoming piece, I was combing through the International Committee of the Red Cross’s formerly-confidential 2007 interviews with the 14 detainees who,

Latino voters seem to have tipped the scales in favor of Democrats like governor-elect Jerry Brown and Sens. Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer and Michael Bennet,

Likely Republican caucusgoers sent a strong message to GOP presidential candidates in an Iowa AARP survey released Thursday, showing they’re strongly opposed to cuts to Social Security and Medicare and would much rather reduce military spending to address the federal deficit. That message could be made stronger by the fact that more than 20 percent of those surveyed are still unsure who they’ll support in the Jan

After weeks of relative silence about negotiations to end the state shutdown, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton went on the offensive Monday, announcing a statewide, weeklong tour across the state. Dayton also released a video articulating his arguments to the people of Minnesota and submitted an op-ed to newspapers across the state

The Iowa Independent has the story.

If you like liberal Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks’ material, you’re out of luck: via Mike Calderone, she’s on her way out of journalism to advise

Will Air Force Chief of Staff Norton Schwartz criticize Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ decision to cap the F-22 fighter jet in public, as Sen. Saxby Chambliss

Late in the morning on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, I sat down with Lynn Forester de Rothschild. In addition to sitting on

The count was 219 to 212, with 34 Democrats joining all Republicans in voting against the bill. Two votes remain: One on a reconciliation bill that tweaks

One of the leaders of the so-called generals’ revolt against then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2006, ret. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, is about to join

Will she or won’t she? Rumors have percolated for weeks leading up to the Polk County Republicans’ Robb Kelley Victory Club dinner on whether or not keynote speaker U.S. Rep.

The anti-gay marriage group piggybacks off the endless Miss California drama with an e-mail to supporters from Executive Director Brian Brown: Here’s my

Bryan Whitman, a principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, has ruled to keep four of my colleagues banned from reporting from

Opposing the public option could mean tough primaries for Bayh and Lincoln. According to gridiron theory, Lieberman just helped Reid toward a first