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Via Abu Muqawama -- who has a Jay Z-like approach to his retirement from blogging -- here’s a C.J. Chivers piece in today’s New York Times about Russia’s

I spoke with George Barisich, a third generation shrimper, earlier this week about the his first shrimping trip since the moratorium on fishing that was imposed

The economy is basically writing a suicide note to the country. What’s a national security reporter to do? The first opportunity I had after coming back from

On Wednesday, Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly will try to quash Republican Gov. Robert McDonnell’s proposed amendment to ban state insurance

Just a day after the Environmental Protection Agency delayed a hearing in upstate New York on the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking,

United Nations climate change talks get underway next week in Tianjin, China. In advance of the talks, international development group Oxfam is calling for

The conservative opposition to President Obama’s agenda faces a new challenge today when a Senate subcommittee chaired Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) holds a

After years of telling the country that setting a date for withdrawal from Iraq would lead to total disaster -- "I believe setting a deadline for

North Carolina’s new anti-abortion law, the “Women’s Right to Know Act,” goes into effect today minus a controversial provision that requires women to

For reforming housing finance, there remain more questions than answers -- a fact highlighted at yesterday’s Future of Housing Finance conference at the

During a press conference this afternoon in Birmingham, Mich., Sen. John McCain repeatedly said the conflict between Georgia and Russia should not be used for

Among the many Republican-backed provisions to cut federal spending is the proposal to transform Medicaid into block grants. Republicans have posited the

One of the ongoing criticisms of the Federal Reserve is that, despite its expertise and mandate, it presided over the failing institutions and didn’t understand

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.

The GOP presidential forum Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) will host in Columbia, S.C., on Labor Day will be co-hosted by the original founding chair of the National

The fight that neighborhoods in Cleveland are launching against banks that dump vacant and vandalized foreclosed homes back onto the real estate market received

My friend Richard Smith at VetVoice has a great catch from George W. Bush’s exit interview with ABC’s Martha Raddatz after getting shoes thrown at him in

During a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing to discuss newly proposed climate change legislation from Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and

Ohio’s Republican legislative leaders and governor want a compromise with the state’s public sector unions in an effort to prevent the repeal via ballot

I talked briefly with Rick Scott, the chairman (and major funder) of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, after he gave a short talk at the Heritage Foundation

Rep. Boucher won’t be involved in crafting or shaping the Senate bill (since he is a member of the House), but that doesn’t mean the chamber’s forgotten