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In a move being cheered by environmentalists and community groups, Congress on Tuesday sent the White House a spending bill for the Department of Homeland

It’s not exactly surprising that some Republicans would be using the failed Christmas terror plot to grandstand and try to thwart President Obama’s plans to

The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post all follow The Associated Press’ break yesterday afternoon that President Obama is about to

It would be too much to say that champagne corks were popping on Wall Street last week, but there was an almost audible sigh of relief wafting through the

It doesn’t get Democrats any closer to 60 votes for climate legislation, but Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) efforts to cross the aisle and help craft a

Though the paper came under fire by FSU’s President last week for allegedly “misconstruing the facts,” the St. Petersburg Times is continuing its investigation into a controversial relationship between billionaire Charles Koch and the public university

Yesterday, Donald Rumsfeld, who forever tried to prevent the U.S. military from bolstering its forces in Iraq or for adopting counterinsurgency strategy there,

Volcker is celebrated as the Federal Reserve chairman who broke the plague of global inflation in the early 1980s. But he did it be engineering a violent crackdown on excess credit. Why a ’Burkean’ conservative can support this Democratic nominee.

Philip Zelikow details an argument that was deployed against me when he opposed torture in the Bush administration: We briefed the following members of

Correction, 5:00 EST: This story originally implied the stay placed on Foster’s execution by the U.S. Supreme Court was based on the use of pentobarbital. In

Iowa politicians offer a wide array of opinions on the role of faith in politics, with some saying they can’t be separated and others saying there must be a clear delineation between the two.

Is that your opening negotiation position, Mullah Omar? From the BBC: Taleban leader Mullah Omar has denied there are any talks under way to end the

Kathleen Keest over at Credit Slips gives the most concise explanation yet of why a worrisome percentage of car owners are underwater on their auto loans - and

Speaking of Hillary Clinton’s people, Greg Sargent has it confirmed from a knowledgeable source: Jim Steinberg, deputy national security adviser in Bill

A Thanksgiving present from Baghdad: the Iraqi parliament has passed the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) ending the war by 2011. Or, as AFP reports, possibly

Ready for some Capitol Hill opposition to Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ program cuts? This is from Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), chairman of the House Armed Services

Nate Fick -- whom Center for a New American Security chairman Richard Danzig announced this morning as the next CNAS CEO; he’s barely in his 30s -- and Andrew

There are 10,000 examples like this one, from Texas: Leon Evans is used to doing more with less. But with the state facing an estimated $18 billion budget

There was a taint in this case, back from Bagram, says Omar Khadr’s attorney. That taint is still there, and the government cannot get away from it.

GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Mark Boykin, senior pastor at Church of All Nations in Boca Raton, is calling on GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain to retract his comments “calling for an electrified fence on the country’s border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally.” A press release issued by Boykin adds: It is appalling that in this day and age politicians resort to incendiary and cruel comments to pander to voters.

The Obama campaign’s viral organizing took a hit today -- from NBC News. Obama’s web team whipped up a frenzy this week with an edgy YouTube video imagining