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In an interview with Pakistan’s Dawn-TV, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out some goals for her trip this week to Pakistan. I talk about

This New York Times piece about a shift in the NATO-Afghan plan to secure Kandahar from Taliban insurgents to a focus on civilian efforts is kind of

With the pressure mounting before the vote on earmarks in tomorrow’s Republican Conference meeting, a growing number of senators are coming out with statements

The Obama campaign says it has passed another organizing milestone. Writing from Chicago on Sen. Barack Obama’s social network, MyBo, Amy Hamblin reports

Neither candidate in the Arkansas Democratic Senate primary will finish with a majority of the vote, while Rep. John Boozman (R) may be able to avoid a runoff

Just released, from the Secretary of State: Afghanistan has been through a rough and contentious election. The bravery, patience, and resilience of the

Building on this post, Simon Shercliff is the senior defense adviser to the British Embassy in Washington, and he blogs today about recent conversations he’s

Minnesota’s Mohammed Abdullah Warsame has admitted to providing material support to al-Qaeda in the form of cash, military training and personnel. He visited

After two days of testimony, a pair of anti-abortion rights bills passed key committees in the Minnesota House this week, one to ban abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy and another to ban taxpayer funding for abortions. Religious leaders came down on both sides of the issue, while legal and medical experts said the bills were poor policy. In the Senate, yet another bill to ban abortion at 20 weeks was introduced on Thursday bringing the total bills in the legislature to curtail abortion rights to nine so far this session.

A bill proposed in the Ohio Senate would block students from enrolling in charter schools that are ranked worse than nearby traditional neighborhood

A bill in the Minnesota Legislature that would ban some forms of stem cell research could have unintended consequences for patients and researchers if it becomes law. The Human Cloning Prohibition Act could cost the Minnesota biotech industry millions in lost research dollars and sales, and the bill could potentially turn certain stem cell patients into criminals if they return to Minnesota after receiving certain treatments outside the state

Shawna Kemppainen and Lisa Green live in conservative Colorado Springs in El Paso County and yet they seem cautiously optimistic that Colorado’s same-sex civil unions bill will pass out of the House Judiciary Committee today.

Rational Arizonans today are surely missing former Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano, who left in January to become secretary of homeland security. From The

That’s the natural question to ask after perusing the first quarter campaign finance report that Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial

Outside political groups are forbidden from coordinating their ad campaigns with the political candidates or parties they support, but they’re perfectly free to

Lawmakers have completed a swing through the panhandle for public redistricting meetings. One issue that’s come up a lot in the area is whether the region is divided properly, particularly when it comes to its Senate seats

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is backing a petition filed to the Obama administration today by the United Steelworkers that accuses China of violating World Trade

Ryan Reilly reports: Assistant United States Attorney John Durham is close to completing a preliminary review of whether there is evidence that CIA agents

A day after Clark Durant announced that he had raised $750,000 for his campaign for the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Debbie Stabenow, primary opponent Pete Hoekstra trumped him by raising $1 million in the same time frame. The Durant campaign pointed out that Hoekstra had more time to raise funds because he declared his candidacy sooner

Gov. Rick Scott hasn’t been specific about his plans to overhaul the state’s higher education system, but he has made clear his intention to make some changes — and higher education reforms in Texas will be a likely template.

R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Billy Bragg and David Byrne don’t like to think of music as torture, or part of any enhanced interrogation techniques. But declassified

The National Association of Counties has released data from a nationwide survey that indicates that counties across the U.S.

This morning, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission heard from Robert Rubin and Charles Prince, the former heads of banking behemoth Citigroup. Prince