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The chair of the Senate Committee on Higher Education has filed a comprehensive public information request for documents related to university proposals created

One of the major turning points of 2006 with regard to the Iraq war was the so-called Generals’ Revolt, in which a group of respected and recently retired

A coalition of 32 groups, including the League of Conservation Voters, the National Wildlife Federation and Audubon Nebraska, have written a letter to Sec.

Last week, Fannie Mae announced it lost $1.2 billion in the second quarter and asked the Treasury Department for an additional $1.5 billion to see it through.

Rep. Chip Cravaack is a top target of Democrats and reproductive rights advocates in 2012 even if the Republican freshman has yet to draw a challenger. Cravaack is one of 14 vulnerable Republicans the Democrats hope to unseat in 2012, and EMILY’s List has announced that Cravaack is one of its top five targets

Recently we noted that a popular kid’s movie, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, was set during the Great Depression and had a very topical theme: Bank

It took the Pentagon almost four months since a federal court ruled the government lacked sufficient evidence against Fouad al Rabia, but late last week -- a

Speaking of cybersecurity, Naval blogger Galrahn has a fascinating take on last week’s big Wall Street Journal story about insurgents in Iraq using an

On March 16, Shane Harris reported that Harold Koh, the State Department’s legal adviser, asserted that the Obama administration’s drone strikes on al-Qaeda and

Canada is willing to finance Michigan’s portion of a new international bridge between Detroit and Windsor and is prepared to absorb the loss if for some reason tolls do not generate enough revenue to repay the loan.

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Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made the dubious assertion that the government does not create jobs. Speaking on CNBC, he said, Now, this

The Daily Progress’s writeup of a Tea Party-sponsored Republican candidate forum in Virginia’s 5th district -- seen as one of the best opportunities for the GOP

Christian Brose, a former speechwriter for secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, has an interesting post up at Foreign Policy magazine’s

If you look at The New York Times op-ed page today, you have a Les Gelb piece on how to withdraw from Afghanistan and a joint Max Boot/Kagan family piece on how

Here’s Sen. Carl Levin’s (D-Mich.) statement on today’s passage of his amendment to strip F-22 funding from the defense authorization: Today’s vote is a

President-elect Obama has said that energy will be a top priority for his administration in its first 100 days -- hinting that it will come second only to the

Don’t know who Ray Mabus is? I don’t blame you. He’s a former Mississippi governor whom President Obama nominated last week to become secretary of the Navy. If

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under the Bush administration struck a secret deal with the European Union that could open the door for foreign ownership of liquefied natural gas terminals and other dangerous chemical and energy facilities.