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For years, public diplomacy -- and its uniformed cousin, ’strategic communications’ -- has been discussed in Washington like a mantra: just find the most

Right now, it’s looking very much like Judith McHale, former president of the Discovery Channel, will be the next undersecretary for public diplomacy. What’s

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) will name his administration’s former general counsel, Carte Goodwin, to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D). While

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) stepped up his calls for federal and state investigations into how Alvin Greene managed to win his state’s Democratic

From the Senate majority leader, following President Obama’s meeting this afternoon with congressional leaders of both parties: We had a very productive

Democrats and Republicans can each claim some victories in last month’s fundraising race -- the Democrats’ national and Senate campaign committees outraised

Led by chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the Senate Finance Committee has just released its highly anticipated Gang of Six compromise health care reform bill.

Remember how the Justice Department was supposed to declassify the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on the enhanced interrogation program today? Not going

This morning, the Commerce Department said that the U.S. economy expanded at a 2.4 percent annual rate in the second quarter -- about what economists expected.

This isn’t good. The number of Americans filing initial claims for jobless benefits -- after holding around 450,000 or 460,000 for weeks -- spiked up to 472,000

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), an alumnus of the NBC show Saturday Night Live, criticized the proposed merger of NBC Universal and Comcast during his

An Occupy Miami protester (Pic by Ashley Lopez) Occupy Miami garnered public support from local unions today. South Florida Jobs for Justice, together with local labor unions, held a press conference this morning announcing their support for Occupy Miami. Occupy Miami, a local group protesting in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, is currently occupying government center in Miami .

Last month, a federal court judge ordered the Defense Department to release a 47-year-old father of two with a heart condition who the court ruled had been

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) today is pushing for the Senate to pass a separate provision authorizing the extension of federal unemployment insurance

Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) today is accusing Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the Senate majority leader, of playing politics with the federal extension of

If you heard a loud thud this afternoon, it might have been the sound of countless civil libertarians and human rights lawyers collectively hitting the floor.

As might have been predicted from the tone of his questioning toward the end of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing last week, Lindsey

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) just announced that he has a rough draft of an energy bill, and he hopes to introduce it the week after next.

The swearing-in of Sen. Robert Byrd’s replacement this afternoon will give Democrats the 60 votes they need to overcome a filibuster.

This is more embarassing than damaging, but it turns out that Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan and