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Everyone’s favorite radical transnationalist, the Shiite cleric Harold Koh, will have his confirmation hearing to become State Department legal adviser

As the NATO foreign ministerial summit in Brussels opens with a pledge of 7,000 new allied troops for Afghanistan, hawkish secretary-general Anders Fogh

Halliburton is the only company that has refused to voluntarily provide the Environmental Protection Agency with key information about its hydraulic fracturing,

When the federal government pays contractors to take over work done by public employees it ends up paying more than twice as much, according to a new study by the Project on Government Oversight.

North Carolina could be the next state to add a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage as the Legislature plans to begin debating the issue on Sept.

Obviously I watched Glenn Reynolds’ American Tea Party interview with Publius Pundit blogger Robert Mayer as soon as I could. I’ve been familiar with Publius

Pennsylvania’s capital, Harrisburg, is fighting for its legal right to declare bankruptcy as state lawmakers try to finalize a bill that would make doing so

That’s how much Scott Brown is reportedly still raising from online donors, a day after Jon Ward of the Daily Caller broke the news of the fundraising

Piling on to the GOP pushback against requests for the IRS to investigate nonprofit groups like Crossroads GPS, Karl Rove spoke on the Fox News Channel’s Your

This morning, the Labor Department announced that initial weekly jobless claims fell to 454,000. The number of people continuing to receive benefits fell to the

When Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced this week that President George W. Bush had nominated the U.S. military’s first woman four-star general, he

TPMDC’s Christina Bellantoni reports on a wild scene over at the Cannon House Office Building, following Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) anti-health care

We are in the midst of a jobs crisis, with the unemployment rate stuck around 9.7 percent. The labor market is particularly bleak in terms of duration of

As the health care debate slogs on, Republicans are using the town-hall forums of August as proof that Americans oppose the Democrats’ health reform plans,

Just as soon as I finish blogging about how probable-new-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Janine Davidson is all about smoother civilian-military

Here are some of the shutdown-related news items that made headlines this weekend: • A total of 138 of the state’s legislators have continued to receive pay during the state government shutdown, the Star Tribune reported. Before the shutdown began, DFL Gov. Mark Dayton said he wouldn’t accept pay in the event of a shutdown.

Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) just indicated that the Senate might take up the unemployment benefits extension on Tuesday. The federally extended benefits, covered

The private security contractor diverted hundreds of weapons, including more than 500 AK-47 assault rifles, from a U.S. weapons bunker in Afghanistan intended to equip Afghan policemen.

Happy New Year! It might be a good idea to begin 2009 thinking happy thoughts. Here is my contribution: There are now just 19 days left in the Bush

This poll goes some way toward explaining why, as I report today, ambitious Republican politicians are clambering on board with the idea of lawsuits to repeal

The GOP’s leader in the House pounces on today’s New York Times report that the White House is ready to go it alone if Republicans won’t back a health care

Closing Guantanamo and ending the military commissions is the easy part. It’s what to do with the people imprisoned there that’s already presenting a political problem for the president-elect and his new administration.