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Ah, once again: the stakes in Iraq. From Bush’s speech at Fort Bragg yesterday: Some of our fellow citizens wonder whether the mission in Iraq is worth the

Noam Scheiber directs us to an interesting Politico assessment of how changes in the handling of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner have boosted his

The Huffington Post’s unstoppable Nico Pitney culls together some of the tweets that @PersianKiwi sent out on Mir Hussein Moussavi’s address to today’s huge

The Oklahoma conservative and past co-sponsor, with former Sen. Barack Obama, of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, is not all sold on the

Courage and Consequence reads less like the story of one of history’s most powerful presidential advisers and more like a quickie fightback book from some apparatchik ensnared in a petty scandal.

From the statement just issued by the office of Sen. Robert Byrd, the 91-year-old West Virginia Democrat who was hospitalized more than five weeks ago with a

My colleague Matt DeLong reports that McCain aide Randy Scheuemann doesn’t give an eff what the allegedly sovereign government of Iraq thinks about getting our

Congress this year is on a tear against bad behavior in the corporate world. Lawmakers have passed credit card reforms to protect Americans from the worst

This is war, said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). I think the decision you’ve made to try these cases in federal court represents a policy and political decision.

In the run-up to last month’s Senate vote that likely denied the USDA the right to limit potatoes in school lunches, U.S. Sen.

When it comes to constructing roads to manage national forests, U.S. Rep

One of the final events of the Values Voter Summit was a Saturday breakout session on the new masculinity, a wide-ranging topic that one speaker used to

Despite the massive GOP party happening in Ames this weekend, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson has other places to be. Specifically, he’ll be riding his mountain bike along a 100-mile course in Colorado, billed as a “ race across the sky .” Of course, the announcement, made by his campaign Tuesday, comes as little surprise.

What you’ll end up doing is opening up the firehose to full blast, said one member of the intelligence community. They’re barely able to handle what they have right now.

After a 12-hour debate yesterday during which senators largely repeated the same arguments for and against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor that we heard

The Senate just confirmed Sonia Sotomayor as the newest justice on the United States Supreme Court by a vote of 68-31. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), presiding

One of the most important building blocks in the Bush administration’s apparatus of torture became public Thursday. An Aug. 1, 2002 memorandum from the

Responding to The New York Times report that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis’ lobbying firm was on the Freddie Mac payroll until the end of August, the

Although Leon Panetta hasn’t had so much as a single senator come out against his nomination to become CIA director, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Marc Ambinder has a good post explaining the president’s behavior after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried and failed to blow up Northwest Airlines

Remember when George W. Bush was supposed to be considering closing Guantanamo Bay? Explain why anyone ever believed that would happen, please. The New York