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Do you think Tim Geithner, President Obama’s pick for treasury secretary, is serious about reining in executive compensation under the Troubled Asset Relief

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The Cable’s Josh Rogin interviews Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Kit Bond (R-Mo.), who attended this afternoon’s White House meeting on

Bankrupt lender CIT Group announced today that it hired former Merrill Lynch Chairman and CEO John Thain to take over the top slot at the company and,

Former Denver Superintendent of Schools, Sen. Michael Bennet, (D-Colo.), survived baptism by fire this week after being associated with Vice President Joe Biden

Ah, the varieties of opposition to the Afghanistan war. Last week, conservative columnist George Will argued that the Obama administration needed to scale back

New controversial fight emerges over foreign lawsuits.

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s meeting to vote to send Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation to the full Senate is back on. Judiciary

The U.S. economy may never return to the days of rapid expansion, Bloomberg reports, and an unemployment rate greater than eight percent and a long period of

One more thing about the New America Foundation’s drone-strike report, which found that the drones have only killed Pakistani civilians one-third of the time.

The Michigan Messenger’s Todd Heywood reports: The Standish City Council unanimously approved a resolution targeting President Barack Obama and federal

President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today -- and in doing so, he acknowledged the wars America is fighting and sought to justify his role in

Bob Graham (D-Fla.), the former chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, expands on his account of what the CIA told him about enhanced interrogation

NYPD and the FBI busted an apparent homegrown terror cell in the stages of plotting to blow up two synagogues in the Bronx. As someone who used to occasionally

Palin starts putting together a campaign -- and if the primaries were this year, she’d have a shot. Obama taps a key architect of Bush’s military

The House passed a new border security bill -- identical to the bill the Senate passed last week other than the name -- by voice vote this morning during its

DFLer Al Franken, concerned that no one will be sitting in Minnesota’s Senate seat as long as Republican Norm Coleman’s fingernails are hanging off of it, asks

Brad Johnson at The Wonk Room reports that about half of the Republican caucus in Congress, taking into account the results of the midterm elections, now

A new poll by the Los Angeles Times and USC poll shows Latino voters prefer Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown to Republican Meg Whitman by large

When partisanship curdles into the malleability of the truth, you get former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Good Morning America: “What he should be

He didn’t get as much coverage as, say, Dick Armey, but 2009 was a very good year for one of the more ambitious figures in conservative politics, Wayne Allyn

A federal judge late last week signed off on a deal struck between the WildEarth Guardians environmental group and the U.S.

This morning, I attended a panel called Can Conservatism Survive Mass Immigration? The question posed to the panelists, most of whom were conservatives, is