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Husain Haqqani, the Pakistani ambassador to Washington, assures Josh Rogin that he has yet to be fired. So who else isn’t resigning?

Political candidates often invoke God and spirituality on the campaign trail, but Rev. Richard Killmer, executive director of the National Religious Campaign

Lawyers and court-watchers have been eagerly waiting to see how the Obama Department of Justice will define an enemy combatant -- and wondering whether the

I detect some snark behind the reporting here: Obama sought Wednesday to cool that debate, staking out a middle position in an appearance with Canadian Prime

More than a year ago, in Ankeny, the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Agriculture began an unprecedented joint journey into possible agricultural sector antitrust violations. The series of five public workshops ended in December 2010 but no findings have yet been released

Tim Pawlenty is taking heat from the National Organization for Marriage for not signing the group’s pledge to oppose efforts to legalize same-sex marriage. On Thursday, the group announced that Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum had all signed the pledge. But while Pawlenty has hesitated to take the pledge, he gave the Miami Herald a piece of his mind on gay marriage on Thursday

At the American Constitution Society blog, Rick Hasen breaks down the possible meanings of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to put a hold on gay

The Obama administration’s Making Home Affordable plan has fallen painfully short, a move to blame borrowers grows.

When Congress rushed to pass a $2 billion extension of the enormously popular Cash for Clunkers program earlier this month, there were few cheerleaders more

GUANTANAMO BAY -- We don’t know who the individual known as Interrogator #1 is. He hasn’t yet been called to testify for the defense, which hopes to be able

An economics professor at the University of California-Berkeley has filed a formal grievance to investigate the tenure of one of Berkeley’s most

Calling his company’s oil-well blowout in the Gulf a low-probability, high-impact episode, BP CEO Tony Hayward conceded this week that the energy giant was

The wait is over. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) just announced that she’ll support the $829 billion health reform bill soon to be voted on by the Senate Finance

The issue of foreign money finding its way into U.S. elections is always sure to get people’s blood boiling. When President Obama suggested that Americans for

Ah, for the days when conservatives boasted of Baghdad avenues named after the glorious George W. Bush. This is the scene in the Iraqi capitol today, in protest

On Friday, The Wall Street Journal revealed that major Wall Street banks regularly use repurchase-agreement, or repo, transactions to reduce their debt levels

Via our sister site, The Minnesota Independent. As the McCain campaign circles the wagons around it’s likely vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

President Obama kicked off efforts to rally the Democratic base and, especially, young people last night with a speech at the University of Wisconsin. Following

There’s been a good deal of response to my post yesterday about Mayor Sarah Palin’s enthusiasm in receiving federal money for Wasilla -- some of it from from