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The last time I wrote about the case of Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad, the government had just conceded that its primary evidence -- his confessions --

“Hi, I’m Robert Jensen, a provider of educational products to consumers at the University of Texas at Austin. I used to introduce myself as a UT professor,

Short answer: Hard to say. Long answer: Retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) has been a moderate voice on environmental policy -- he voted for cloture on the

Updated at 12:45 p.m. EST to add comments from the Louisiana Democratic Party The Times-Picayune has obtained an invitation for a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser to

Just got a readout of what’s likely to be included in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) scaled-down energy bill. According to an environmentalist

Major news publications are paying attention to the fact that a Texas law against homosexual conduct is still in the Penal Code despite being ruled

“Dumb.” That’s how Rep. Betty McCollum characterized proposed cuts to federal family planning funding and a Republican effort to defund Planned Parenthood. At a St

Here’s what the country’s leading editorial boards had to say about Ted Kennedy. Michael Steele tries to reconcile his support for Medicare with his

A TWI analysis of tight House and Senate races finds the recession isn’t slowing the flow of money into lawmakers’ coffers.

Facing morning headlines indicating that Democrats are leaning toward a partisan approach to health care reform, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the

With eight days remaining in Congress’ two-week spring recess, Sen. Arlen J. Specter (R-Penn.) is calling on his colleagues to get back to work. In an interview

The White House sent a budget amendment to Congress last night that would set aside money for the reorganization of the Interior Department’s offshore drilling

Ed Whelan digs up an April 17 speech by Sonia Sotomayor in which she praises the election of President Obama and says our challenge as lawyers and court

The much-derided amendment by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) to gut the consumer financial protections from Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory

The perils of writing posts last night and timing them for release in the morning! Meet re-Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. His reinstatement meets the basic

When pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer pay billion-dollar fines for illegal off-label marketing (promoting drugs for unapproved uses), prosecutors and the

The Republican candidate in New York’s 20th Congressional District special election, Jim Tedisco -- who loudly denounced negative ads in his race against

Citing budget concerns, the Senate on Wednesday killed a $245 billion proposal to scrap the controversial formula that dictates doctor payments under

Just released from the White House communications shop: The White House today announced that Deputy National Security Director and National Security Council

For the second time this week, TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, this time to pick apart the GOP’s problematic pledge to

Louisiana Lieutenant Gov. Scott Angelle railed against the Obama administration’s moratorium on offshore drilling at a rally today in Lafayette, La, calling the

So: $25 billion, five years and 17,000 U.S. trainer troops to yield 400,000 total Afghan soldiers and cops. That’s Center for a New American Security president