Breaking News

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

This Gallup poll, in some ways, is tautology: Republicans are conservative about the role of government, and Democrats are liberal. Members of the GOP believe

Politico has a double-bylined take-out of the conservative movement’s rebellion against Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, the liberal Republican nominated for the

The National Republican Congressional Committee is up on the air in South Carolina with an ad not-so-secretly aimed at getting Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.) to

Critics see retrenchment on Obama’s pledge to rebalance the foreign policy apparatus away from the military.

U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, appearing on NPR’s Weekend Edition , said that while agrees that the federal government has to cut spending, it also has to raise the debt ceiling to avoid defaulting on its loans. A full transcript of the interview follows

Results of a poll commissioned by NPR to analyze 60 House districts that elected Democrats and 10 districts that elected Republicans in 2008 look troubling for

U.S. Rep

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

Despite Obama’s promises to “uphold our most cherished values . . . in times of ease and in eras of upheaval,” he is reserving an extraordinary and highly controversial right to hold suspected terror supporters indefinitely without trial.

Strategists expected Arizona’s harsh new immigration law to turn off Latino voters to the GOP. Instead, due to persistent outreach efforts, Republican candidates like Meg Whitman are running strong.

Big scoop from Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy: right in time for that closed door briefing to the Senate on the metrics for judging progress in Afghanistan and

Nine months after members of the New Black Panther Party were arrested for menacing voters (dressing in black uniforms and holding nightsticks) outside of a

This entire interview with Rep. Dave Obey (D-Wis.), the head of the House Appropriations Committee and a powerful veteran member of Congress, who is retiring

Sen. Charles Grassley, it seems, has given up on the Bush administration. Just over a month after the Iowa Republican urged the Treasury Dept. to rein in