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Anne Kornblut of The Washington Post writes a curtain-raiser on the unveiling of a story I broke about the contours of the Obama administration’s new team for

As Obama’s favorability drops, critics are questioning the usefulness of his pledge of support for immigration reform. One Democratic aide told Time that

Marc Ambinder follows up on my question to John Brennan, President Obama’s chief counterterrorism aide, about what role Brennan played in domestic surveillance

Via Huffington Post. From the Where Have We Heard This Before? file, Mother Jones reports that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is withholding more than 1,000 emails

Several months ago, I asked many Republicans if Sen. John McCain could win the election without the support of the party’s base. After all, the base --

The Hill reports that Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is asking leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works panel to delay any examinations of the Gulf oil

Jamie Kirchick interviews the incredibly resilient Republican pundit/daughter of the 2008 presidential candidate, who takes a swing at Joe the Plumber

Some experts and politicians believe that the mark-to-market accounting rule is to blame for the financial crisis--and they want to modify it; opponents say that would cloud companies’ true financial health.

United Nations climate change talks started today in Tianjin, China. And, right off the bat, the head of the UN negotiations urged China to be open to

Zach Roth catches Dale Robertson, the would-be Tea Party leader who has been ostracized for the photo of him holding a sign calling taxpayers the n-word,

Less then a month after the announcement that the federal government was going to start an incentive program to encourage buyers and banks to sell houses at

The Washington Times reports that the Obama administration is sending a high-level delegation to Moscow to save access to a key air base for the Afghanistan

Young people care more about the environment -- whether global warming, renewable fuels, clean energy or energy independence -- than any other demographic. This proves true across party lines.

Colorado Fourth-District Republican US Rep Cory Gardner is filling his campaign coffers for 2012 as he did in 2010 by leaning heavily on oil-and-gas industry donors . He raked in $370,000 in the quarter that just ended. That’s the most of any candidate for federal office from Colorado and topped his take in previous quarters by roughly $100,000.

After nearly a day’s worth of radio silence from Langley about the suicide bombing at a CIA outpost in eastern Afghanistan, this statement comes from Director

A new poll conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health found a majority of Americans prefer that the federal government invest in public health. According to an executive summary (.pdf) of the polling data: A majority (52 percent) of Americans prefer a bigger government providing more services in health, rather than a smaller government providing fewer services in health (37 percent). In addition, six in ten believe that if U.S

Hoping for a big northeastern win Tuesday that would point to a Republican come-back, conservatives instead grapple with an inconclusive end.