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FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan -- The anthropologists of the Human Terrain Team put together a report on life and war from the perspective of the Afghan population.

A wealth of new information emerged Tuesday on interrogation practices.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting U.S. Rep.

Initial unemployment applications unexpectedly increased from 460,000 last week to 484,000 this week. An unnamed Labor Department official quoted in the wire

The newest Website to terrify you into resisting Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ defense reorganizations: 33 Minutes, a missile-defense booster site set up

The campaign manager for former attorney general candidate Brenna Findley has signed on with Rick Santorum’s Iowa presidential team, as has the field director for former gubernatorial candidate Rod Roberts. Sheila Murphy — currently the chairwoman of the Republican Party of Harrison County — and brother Kip Murphy — who formerly worked for “Americans for Rick Perry” — will advise Santorum on state field operations, particularly in southwest Iowa.

TWI’s Andrew Restuccia is on KALW radio’s Your Call right now, discussing the Obama administration’s decision to lift the deepwater drilling moratorium in the

Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly getting closer to appointing an independent prosecutor to investigate torture under the Bush administration. That’s

A great catch from The Wall Street Journal: , the Republican whip in the House of Representatives, bought up to $15,000 in shares of ProShares Trust

If all went as planned, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) jumped out of a plane on Saturday to show his support for the coal

ThinkProgress does a quick wrap of yesterday’s Code Red protest that leaves out some context. In the morning, there was also a vehicle driving around Capitol

The final round of details on the fiscal 2010 defense budget will be released today, but as Colin Clark of DOD Buzz reports, members of Congress are sick of

Via CNN: House Democratic leaders were forced to put off until Friday a vote on the $789 billion economic stimulus bill after many rank-and-file Democrats who

I look back on this to-be-sure paragraph from my pre-Afghanistan-elections piece about illegitimacy and wonder. While the U.S. official cautioned that a

A new poll finds Americans support Elena Kagan by a similar margin to other recent successful Supreme Court nominees. Michele Flournoy, a potential successor

New Orleans is a city that recognizes that day laborers did participate and did come to the rescue in terms of reconstruction, says Jacinta Gonzales of the Congress of Day Laborers.

Add one more item to the already long list of alleged reasons for abortions: socialism. # The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property is a Pennsylvania-based group of about 120,000 “lay Catholic Americans concerned about the moral crisis shaking the remnants of Christian civilization.” The group’s ginned up rhetoric has made its way to the Catholic community of Westchester, Miami — a community that is part of state Sen

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