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Benjy Sarlin talks to Tea Party leaders -- the type of people who were supposed to be the targets of RNC fundraising appeals discussed in a leaked 72-page

Official negotiations among United Nations members begin today in Vienna over a U.N. declaration to guide global drug policy for the next decade. As we’ve

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) -- last seen slandering Justice Department lawyers and then distancing himself from Liz Cheney’s similar slanders -- goes way

Following up on our earlier post about senators’ requests for more funding for carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS) technology in the Senate bill, we were wondering

American intelligence has a serious problem. But it is not that the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine services, Jose

Last week’s speech from President Obama outlining his plan to withdraw from Iraq made a point to emphasize sustained diplomacy as a pillar of his strategy.

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the white firefighters in the Ricci v. DeStefano case, overturning a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling

In his press briefing yesterday, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly took a beating over the fact that department bureaucrats didn’t revoke Umar Farouk

In the how-dare-you-question-my-virtue category of political certitude, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) had a somehow refreshingly honest response

Meet Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the only man in Washington who’s actively working to undermine legislation he’s in the process of writing. Graham’s

Anti-abortion activists recall Clinton-era consequences to rise in abortion clinic violence.

Just announced by committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.): “I very much regret the fact that the Republican side of the Intelligence Committee has

UPDATED: March 28, 11:54 a.m. As The American Independent reported earlier this week, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns’ proposed Informed Choice Act

The White House just released a statement touting a provision in the financial reform bill, which President Obama signed into law Wednesday, that requires

Mother Jones is running a series of infographics in its most recent issue that follow income trends in the U.S. Among other findings, they show that the top .01

This evening, 57 senators said they supported the jobs bill, also known as the extenders package or H.R. 4213, which would extend unemployment benefits and

The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision represented a major change to campaign finance law. I’ve been tracking the story of how some corporations (both

The Watchdog Institute, a nonprofit reporting center based out of San Diego State University, has released a report showing connections between a committee in

Cory Barnardi, a Liberal Party senator from South Australia, is in Washington for meetings with some stateside conservative groups. (The Liberal Party in that

So now the U.S. and Iraq have signed the Status of Forces Agreement that gets the U.S. out of Iraqi cities in 2009; out of Iraq entirely in Dec. 2011; and

A new poll indicates that only a third of likely U.S. voters think the U.S