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Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group, points out that Rep. Charlie Rangel’s

Update, 8:50 a.m.: I am retracting this post, published yesterday, titled Inside This Morning’s White House Afghanistan Meeting: Anger With Eikenberry,

Since Scott Brown’s stunning Senate victory in Massachusetts last month, the thinking among a good number of moderate Democrats seems to be that simply having

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City to lay out the Obama administration’s new counterterrorism

Fantastic news for conservatives and libertarians who’ve been pushing this message for years and getting called kooks for their trouble. A new Pew poll has

The New York Times, again with the scoop: The Chinese government abruptly ended on Thursday its unannounced embargo of exports of crucial strategic minerals to

A new Political Action Committee, Michigan Citizens United, has officially begun the process of recalling Gov.

The stimulus package ushers in new contracting oversight, but neglects to fully protect the whistleblowers at the front lines of reform.

As House Democrats head home to their districts, they won’t be alone. Leadership has supplied them with four pocket cards to help them stay on message: The

In a new twist to the Colorado GOP gubernatorial primary taking place on August 10, an outside group funded by Democrats and Democratic supporters has booked

Just as a heads up, tonight the TWI staff will be filing dispatches from around the country. We have three reporters in Arizona keeping us updated on the McCain

As you’ve probably read this morning, the Pakistani Taliban executed a complex attack -- using suicide car bombers and gunmen -- on the American consulate in

It’s no news that Republicans are up in arms over the recent White House decision to bar insurance companies from encouraging their customers to oppose the

Rep. Keith Ellison called for the resignation of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs after he said the “professional left” would only be satisfied with

Bayh is the new Lieberman; Lieberman is a born-again liberal. FiveThirtyEight breaks down voting shifts in the Senate. Dems circulate talking points to rebut

Big news from Jeff Bader, the National Security Council director for Asia, reporting on President Obama’s meeting yesterday with Chinese President Hu Jintao

Public Policy Polling today rolled out what appears to be a preview of yet another poll result that shows Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) leading

The Washington Post reported in March that EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson was overruled by the White House in setting an ozone standard. Now, documents

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, a longtime supporter of strict immigration enforcement, has made pushing for Arizona-style immigration legislation a central part

Rep. Martin Heinrich sent a letter to President Barack Obama Thursday asking him to being a troop withdrawal in July of this year. “We have a responsibility to leave Afghanistan in a responsible way,” Heinrich wrote, “and I believe it is time to begin this progress.” Heinrich called on Obama to “follow through on the pledge we made to the American people to begin the drawdown of U.S.

Notwithstanding my own analysis of President Obama’s statement today on the failed underpants bombing, Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, just

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) announces the hiring of Megan Whittemore as deputy press security for the minority whip’s office. Her background, from the

Today, J.P. Morgan Chase revealed that it made a third-quarter profit of $4.4 billion, despite dwindling revenues. The bank set aside far less money -- $6.6