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More than halfway through a coy interview with Josh Rogin about whether or not Afghan President Hamid Karzai really walked back his inflammatory Thursday speech

Unlike the Bush administration -- which used a slim election victory to claim a broad policy mandate -- the Obama White House has bent over backwards to include

For politicians in the U.S. and abroad, it once seemed like a good idea to hitch their political fates to George W. Bush’s wagon.

For eight years, the United States has observed a policy that few Americans outside the reproductive rights community probably knew about: International groups

The news that Gov. David Paterson (D-N.Y.) won’t seek a full term of his own in the wake of a new scandal reminds me of this TV ad that Paterson and

Jon Michael Turner’s story of serving as a Marine in Iraq was documented here by a team of video journalists on behalf of The Washington Independent. Turner

Losing the people of Afghanistan will cost the United States the war, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said before a Senate panel Tuesday.

Public Policy Polling’s ongoing survey of American attitudes about presidential conspiracy theories continues with a fascinating look at the birther and

If there’s been one cardinal Bush administration tenet for negotiations, it’s been Not To Negotiate With Yourself. In practice, that’s meant presenting your

I didn’t get many specifics from Pentagon when I asked about alternatives to the soon-to-be-lost Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan for resupplying U.S. troops in

Here’s a valuable use of time: A group called the Pray at the Pump Movement will congregate at a Shell gas station in DC this afternoon to -- you guessed it --

In a recent email newsletter, Americans United for Life President Charmaine Yoest urged the group’s supporters to contribute money before the final votes are

When the White House economic team last month rejected a Senate-passed stimulus amendment that would have taxed bailed-out companies at 35 percent for 2008

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke opened up about his feelings regarding the continuing bailout of insurance giant AIG -- and he is all kinds of mad.

Mortgage giants made no public effort to inform housing attorneys of changes to anti-foreclosure and eviction program.

Sen. Chris Dodd is getting blamed for a stimulus bill amendment that allowed AIG executives to legally pocket bonuses. The trouble is, he’s not responsible.

Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, writes in The Washington Note about the utter incompetence of the battlefield

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Public Policy Polling’s habit of asking revealing, bizarre questions continues with a survey of New Jersey voters that finds—as President Obama’s approval

University of New Mexico administrators have issued a new permit for members of the “99 percent” movement to protest at Yale Park, which is on UNM’s campus.