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That Top Kill maneuver that appeared so successful at blocking the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico earlier today? Not so successful anymore: BP had to

Just two days after receiving a letter from the White House urging that a public plan be part of the Democrats’ health reform strategy, Senate Finance Committee

New York Republicans are salivating over the House seat that Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is leaving behind to take an appointment as Secretary of State

As Kate pointed out a few weeks back, the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this month stalled 79 applications for new surface mines in the Appalachian

In case you missed it, Blackwater founder Erik Prince outed himself as a CIA asset in an extraordinary Vanity Fair interview. Prince complained that powerful

Nevada gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid (D) isn’t using the last name he shares with father Harry Reid in a new ad. Rod Blagojevich called Obama’s purported

Roy Moore has come a long way, done a lot of things and stirred a few controversies since the days when he made 85 cents an hour bagging groceries at a Piggly Wiggly. Moore has tried professional kickboxing in Texas, ranching in the Australian outback and politics in Alabama.

The congressional Democrats leading the effort to protect consumers from overdraft fees said today that, despite Tuesday’s news that Bank of America and JP

After prodding from President Obama, House Democrats have reversed their earlier position that condoms should be part of a stimulating economic package. This

The conference committee to reconcile the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform is up and running, with conferees currently hashing proposals

Is this it? some asked. The few dozen Tea Party activists who made it to upper Senate Park in Washington this morning were confused at the size of the

When Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania defected to the Democratic Party last week, there were questions about just what kind of deals had been cut with

An uneasy mix of town hall meeting and self empowerment lecture, Michael Steele puzzled some members of the crowd at Howard University.

Secretary Clinton’s distortions are typical of a politician, said Marc Sageman, a former CIA official and terrorism researcher, who distorts reality to muster support for a policy.

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,