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One of the more frustrating aspects of counterinsurgency is talking to the people who were recently shooting at you -- sometimes while they’re shooting at you.

The campaign of Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), who’s got less of a cash problem than almost anyone running for office in 2012 (he has millions left over from his

In the wake of the explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine earlier this week, Mike Lillis dug through federal records and wrote a piece, published this

Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), the outspoken chairman of the Ways and Means health subcommittee, is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, the panel

In his fevered imaginings, when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that the Obama administration is 100 percent committed to closing Guantanamo

Here are the tales of six leaders -- or, in some cases, would-be-leaders -- who learned the hard way that, contrary to the way it looked in Sept. 2001, it actually made more sense to be against Bush than to be with him.

Durbin wields considerable power in the Senate as majority whip, the second-highest leadership post in the Senate. And his ties to the president extend

It’s no secret that the oil and natural gas industry has always had a huge influence in Washington. But given this summer’s massive oil spill and the prospect

Discontented voters who swept an historic Republican majority into the House last November are ready to sweep out that majority just as dramatically, according to a survey released Tuesday (pdf) by Public Policy Polling. The Republicans, who have been pushing deep spending cuts and controversial anti-abortion and anti-gay rights policies since January, have apparently alienated the independent swing voters who put them in power. “The conventional wisdom is that Democrats will have a very hard time winning back control of the House next year,” said PPP President Dean Debnam in a release that accompanied the survey results.

A big cross-section of the American Jewish community’s leadership met with President Obama today at the White House, from J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami on the left

Eric Holder might have surprised a few people with this answer to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) question of whether the nation is at war: I don’t think

As President Obama talks about building up U.S. forces in Afghanistan, it raises the inevitable question about what he’s going to do with the 600 prisoners

As the economy continues to sink, the Wall Street Journal today documents an increasingly obvious fact: Most of the big banks that got a total of $148 billion

Anthony Cordesman, a longtime defense wonk at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has been around long enough to see effort after effort of

Next week, Congress is back in session, and financial regulation will occupy much of the legislative calendar in and mental capacity of Washington for the next

The news is already abuzz with the start of the confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s first nominee to the United States Supreme

Feith just listed what he says is a host of errors of facts in Sands’s book. He says there was no dissent within the Bush administration on the decision that

Here’s an interesting look at the inner workings of the Consumer Advisory Council, which is supposed to advise the Federal Reserve on consumer protection

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At least that’s how I read the joke in this (pretty darn funny) NRSC video -- the one about how global warming has been solved under President Obama’s

Picking up on the controversial proposal he made during a Feb. 9 speech at Georgetown University, Sen.Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today reiterated his call for a

As a member of the two Senate committees on energy and the environment issues, and the chairman of the new Green Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee, Sen.

Keep Conservatives United, a super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, is airing ads in Iowa attacking Rick Perry for signing an executive order mandating HPV vaccines in that state. The ad buy mirrors Bachmann’s own stance on the issue—she has stated that HPV vaccines are dangerous despite scientific consensus to the contrary.

The New York Times has a good round-up of opinions today on the impact of Pentagon official Susan Crawford’s admission yesterday that Mohammad al-Qahtani was