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President Obama won the 2008 presidential election with help from Latino voters, who voted for him over John McCain by a more than two-to-one margin. Some of

Do you love Politico? Sure, we all do. And one of the best ways to read the paper is to read TWI a few weeks earlier. For example, if you were reading TWI 10

Here’s Ali Soufan, from his written opening statement and his spoken summary, delivered from behind the wooden partition. One aspect of Ali Soufan’s

Sen. John McCain gave another statement to reporters earlier this morning about the escalating conflict in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. In the

Quinnipiac is the latest pollster to find a huge uptick in support for an Afghanistan escalation, making last week’s speech by President Obama -- somewhat

Bo Dietl, an MSNBC analyst and Chairman of the New York State Security Guard Advisory Council (appointed by former Gov. George Pataki), unleashed a disturbing,

It’s not been the greatest week for the Obama administration’s commitment to open government. But Harold Koh, the State Department’s legal adviser, told Shane

So says Politico’s Mike Allen. As a native Brooklynite, I am obligated to throw my Roc sign in the air. One quick note: this is a pretty strong indication

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), a longtime supporter of a single-payer health care system, has been doing much of the liberal grumbling today in the face of

This morning, Fannie Mae -- a government-sponsored enterprise that buys mortgages on the secondary market and that made $72 billion in losses last year --

Everybody has a spoof of Christine O’Donnell’s I’m not a witch ad. Sharron Angle and Harry Reid accuse each other of helping child molesters. Joe

New York state dairy farmer John Bunting doesn’t use an artificial bovine growth hormone on his cows for one key reason. He doesn’t want them getting sick.

John McCain has promised to appoint conservative Supreme Court justices who could radically alter the ideological makeup of the court.

Despite the stall-out in the recovery and the decline in median wages, Wall Street executives look set for record pay-outs this year. The Wall Street Journal

First appeared March 4, 2008 Usually I limit my blogging to environment-related topics, but this was just too good to be true (though I assure you, it is).

The other day I wondered what the reported ascendence of Jim Steinberg to deputy secretary of state meant for Richard Holbrooke’s job prospects. Reading about

In the spring of 2007, as the first wave of new combat brigades arrived in Baghdad to execute President George W. Bush’s troop surge, an Army lieutenant