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With violence reaching pre-invasion levels in Aghanistan, negotiations with the Taliban may be needed.

I’m in an overstuffed ballroom at the Willard hotel for the third annual conference of the Center for a New American Security, where the commander of U.S.

I’m at the Omni Shoreham hotel today for the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference, where the tone was set by former United Nation Ambassador’s slashing

The founder of the influential Fastweb.com and FinAid.org websites wrote a short research paper two weeks ago arguing college minorities receive a

President Obama reiterated his support for the DREAM Act during a meeting this afternoon with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.Y.) and Reps. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and

Former Vice President Al Gore is honored by the blowback he received for blasting climate change deniers with a certain eight-letter epithet during an off-the-cuff speech last month in Colorado . “There’s a long tradition of people who don’t like a particular message turning to attack the person delivering the message,” he said on NPR’s Talk of the Nation .

Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert “Bo” Ortiz will comply with Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s order not to send ballots to soldiers out of state who are legally registered Pueblo County voters but who failed to cast ballots in 2010. The news came Friday afternoon in a carefully worded release that came after hours of deliberation. “Pueblo County will honor Secretary Gessler’s order but this is not over,” Ortiz is quoted to say.

Just minutes after polls closed, the AP has called the Senate race in Kentucky for Republican Rand Paul, sending Jack Conway to defeat. It’s not an unexpected

With the deadline for filing campaign finance reports this week, Sen. Debbie Stabenow announced that she raised $1 million for next year’s election, matching her chief Republican competitor, Rep

Samuel Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher was a late addition to the speaker lineup at the How to Take Back America Conference last weekend in St. Louis, but I

Though the Senate is moving to restore Medicaid funding to states and to hand them new money to keep teachers employed, Congress is granting far less than

Texas’ smaller universities are reprioritizing in attempts to deal with massive cuts in their budgets, although state-mandated cuts have not been as severe as

The National Organization for Marriage is fighting off legislative efforts by Rhode Island and New York assemblies to offer rights to same-sex couples.

The changing demographics of the United States suggest that there would be a lot of support for comprehensive immigration reform that includes legalization of

Yet another turn in the GOP presidential campaign strategy. Could this tactic finally seal the deal?

2009 is poised to be a big year for the Democrats, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to overlook the GOP here at TWI. I’m pleased to announce that David

After her surprise victory over Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican Senate primary, sudden national figure and social conservative heroine Christine

Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island (Pic by Office of Senate President, via flsenate.gov) The Miami-Dade County Commission on Tuesday approved a resolution urging the Florida Legislature to not pass any immigration legislation in 2012.

When I asked Mike Connolly of the Club for Growth what, exactly, could strip candidates who’d signed the Club’s Repeal It pledge of official support, Connolly