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No plans for Labor Day? The coal industry has you covered. At no cost to the public, the heavyweights of the industry are putting on the Friends of America

One of the goals of the unanimous Republican no vote on the stimulus package Wednesday was producing news analyses like this one, from The New York

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair delivered the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment briefing to the Senate intelligence committee today, and

Want some details about how the Navy SEALs took down the pirates holding Capt. Richard Phillips hostage? Christian Lowe has some good enlightened speculation

Karl Rove gets all the attention, but Politico argues that the guy who’s really pulling the strings behind the Republican-boosting outside spending effort is a

As Newsweek reported Friday evening, the CIA inspector general report expected to be released on Monday reveals that the CIA staged mock executions to terrify

Public Policy Polling dips into Arkansas, one of the few states where Barack Obama won fewer votes for president than John Kerry, and finds that only 45 percent

White House Counsel Gregory Craig, a longtime Washington insider who’s faced mounting criticism for his role in the Obama administration’s plans to close the

If anyone thought that a liberal President Obama, backed by large Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, was just going to write his way through

One of the more disturbing appendices to the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on torture comes from the Office of Medical Services. On September 4, 2003, the

Forbes magazine has an article about a new report that looks at a new market developing for companies that are inventing techniques to clean up the toxic liquid mix recovered from hydrofracking natural gas wells. The report focuses mostly on the Marcellus Shale, which underlies most of the Appalachian basin under New York, Pennsylvania, and parts of Maryland, Ohio, and West Virginia

So says the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who heads the Senate Finance Committee. The bill would extend the filing deadline for the existing tiers of

The arrest in Pakistan of five northern Virginia young men at a safe house belonging to the anti-India terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed underscores fears of

Roll Call reports: Mexican President Felipe Calderon called for the reinstatement of a ban on the sale of assault weapons in the U.S. while reiterating his

In a followup to yesterday’s news that a British court ruled that it would conceal information about the rendition and alleged torture of Guantanamo Bay

You’re not going to believe this, but Scott Carney’s got a post up at Danger Room interviewing Somali pirates on their strategies for hijacking cargo ships,

Former Sen. Norm Colman (R-Minn.), who now heads the conservative 501(c)4 group American Action Network that shares an office building with Karl

Marcy Wheeler has a typically excellent post going through a remarkable annex to the 2004 CIA inspector general’s torture report: the psychological profile

Let me start off by noting that not everyone agrees increasing troop levels in Afghanistan is a solution to the deteriorating situation there. Maybe yes, maybe

Friend of the site Charles Morris points out something many people might have missed in former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s testimony Thursday