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State of Play: Obama’s New Pastor Problem Just as Sen. Barack Obama thought he had weathered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright storm, another Chicago clergyman has

Today’s the deadline for Iran’s leadership to embrace or reject the deal its negotiators endorsed in Vienna to ship uranium out of the country for enrichment

The Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire blog has dug up an audio recording of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals argument in the controversial

A little history: Senate Democrats thought they were done with financial regulatory reform, ready to vote and pass the bill to President Obama. Then Sen. Scott

In this corner: Christopher Hill, the Obama administration’s choice to become ambassador to Iraq; Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign

Not happy with the Bush administration’s proposed new rules for the Endangered Species Act? You’ve got 30 days to complain. The New York Times editorial board

During his 2003-2004 tour in Iraq’s Anbar Province, a leading Army counterinsurgent officer named John Nagl confronted many frustrations -- from improperly

In 1987, Michael M. Thomas, my former colleague at The New York Observer, published The Ropespinner Conspiracy. The title derives from a remark attributed

Rand Paul, who has surprised a lot of people by becoming a real contender for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky, bows to political reality -- he’s blasting the

Seeking to dismiss criminal fraud charges against him, Raymond Azar, a 45-year-old Lebanese construction manager working for an English contractor, has charged

As if on cue from that last post, Scott Eric Kaufman recounts this recent conversation: A former student of mine from Iran heard from his brother for the

GrassrootsPA is reporting that State Sen. David Argall, a Republican from Rep. Tim Holden’s (D-Pa.) base of Schuylkill County, might get into the race against

As the GOP presidential field in Iowa continues to fluctuate wildly between flavor-of-the-month candidates like Texas Gov. Rick Perry and U.S

Although some prominent Illinoisans have come out strongly in favor of the plan to transfer some Guantanamo Bay detainees to the largely vacant Thomson

The Environmental Protection Agency issued its long-awaited endangerment finding today, formalizing its conclusion that greenhouse gases -- and the resulting

Speaking at a Labor Day event in Milwaukee, Wis., President Barack Obama unveiled a new stimulus package designed to jump-start the economy before the November

The Washington Post ran a thought-provoking op-ed Sunday that posed a simple question: What will future generations condemn us for? Kwame Anthony Appiah,

Last month, the Afghan government sent a delegation to Washington to advise the White House strategy review on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Several delegates

The Guardian, fleshing out Siobhan Gorman’s Wall Street Journal piece today on the secret CIA significant actions that Director Leon Panetta cancelled last

On Monday a federal court judge ordered the Department of Defense to release a 47-year-old father of two with a heart condition who it has imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for the past seven years without justification.

Obama administration wants Pakistan to cooperate in plans to confront growing violence in the region.