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Here’s an insightful observation from Harper’s Scott Horton today about Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s latest defense of the academic freedom of John

This resignation letter in The New York Times today from an AIG executive in the financial products unit explaining the bonus controversy from his point of view

In some quarters, Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s order to his troops in Afghanistan to protect civilians first represents a dangerous exposure to battlefield risk,

At the rally outside the Capitol on Sunday, Brendan Steinhauser of FreedomWorks told me that he was hearing things about the race in FL-19, the congressional

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who’s done plenty in recent months to alienate Democrats, won’t improve his standing with his comments today to Fox News. Asked by

Richard Holbrooke, a longtime diplomat, has reconfigured the State Department’s South and Central Asia bureau.

At the Code Red rally today, I did the reporting for this post. When I returned to the office, I fired off a 3:41 email to Jane Hamsher. Hamsher did

I’m at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting, where the party members will choose their next chairman. Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell

Mary Ann Akers works the Too Much Information beat at the Media Research Center’s annual awards dinner, reporting that Samuel Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher

A bill offered by Minnesota Republicans would have the state condemn the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The bill’s language comes directly from ParentalRights.org, a subsidiary of the Home School Legal Defense Association, which is also responsible for Generation Joshua, a program that enlists Christian children to campaign for Republican candidates . SF63 / HF402 “condemns the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child” and “ urges the United States Senate to reject its ratification.” The U.S.

Yesterday, after three Democratic senators urged their party’s leaders not to include an expansion of offshore oil drilling in climate legislation, I speculated

The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein hits the nail on the head today regarding the toughest hurdle Democrats face in passing health reform this year: Namely, the

Sen. Barack Obama’s latest TV ad attacks his GOP rival for raising taxes on health care, based on a sharp exchange from the VP debate. It’s an unconventional

Testimony from any interrogator about personal involvement in detainee abuse on behalf of an abused detainee will be a milestone for the military commissions.

That’s according to Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), one of the three Republicans on the Hill who backed the stimulus package, according to Ryan Grim. Even those

What does National Public Radio have in common with Planned Parenthood? They’re both national organizations, both often despised by the right wing, both

Not even a third of the nation’s lowest-income children receive dental care, and Congress isn’t doing a thing about it.

I guess there must be a bright side for somebody in any economic downturn, and top bankruptcy lawyers seem to have found it. As hard times hit more businesses,

TWI presents the five people who did the most to craft America’s approach to keeping its citizens safe in 2009.

Dems hope to boost their Latino cred today. Voinovich: The GOP’s biggest problem is too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns. Bush-era letters provide a