As President Obama prepares to visit Russia, the new neocon organization called the Foreign Policy Initiative (the successor to the defunct Project for the New American Century) has issued a letter, which was also signed by several liberal hawks, imploring him to raise the issue of human rights. It also...

Who knew that the Republican presidential primary candidates would already start getting winnowed in 2009?

It's beginning to look as though the question is no longer who's sinning in the GOP. It's who is not. Mark Sanford's disclosure that he's been having a long distance relationship with an Argentine flame...

Over the past few days, President Obama has been pummeled by the right for supposedly appeasing the regime in Iran. Robert Kagan has accused Obama of being "objectively" on the side of the mullahs, while Charles Krauthammer detects a president "afraid to take sides between the head-breaking, women-shackling exporters of...

Seldom has a defeat been more richly deserved than Terry McAuliffe's failed bid to win the Democratic nomination to run for Governor of Virginia. State Senator Creigh Deeds pulled off an improbable comeback victory in the state primary on Tuesday, overcoming the millions that McAuliffe poured into his campaign. A...

Will it ever end? Probably not. Once again a Republican presidential hopeful is accusing a Democrat of being soft on (what else?) national security.

Today it was Mitt Romney's turn to sing from the old hymnal at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, where he announced that President Obama is...

It was almost like an episode from Bloggingheads.tv. On the one side was President Obama speaking on national security in a measured and statesmanlike way. On the other side was former vice-president Dick Cheney trying to speak on national security in a measured and statesmanlike way.

It wasn't even close....

This is a big week for the GOP. Two events suggest that it isn't detached from reality. It's oblivious to it.

The first event takes place on Wednesday, when the Republican National Committee, as today's Washington Times reports, will hold a special meeting at National Harbor in Maryland to...

The Cheneys were at it again yesterday. On Tuesday, daughter Liz, who served in the Bush State Department, undiplomatically denounced President Obama on Fox News for agreeing to release photographs of Americans abusing prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's become "fashionable,' she said, "to side, really, with the terrorists."

In his press conference Wednesday, Barack Obama only really came alive when he recounted his exasperation at the "bickering" that continues to consume Washington. Why can't there be a "timeout," he wondered?

No such luck. For the past few months, the Republicans have resembled the First Family's new dog, Bo--chewing...

Pundits have been feverishly speculating about what Barack Obama's most important accomplishment is in the past 100 days. I say it came today. Senator Arlen Specter is switching from the Republican to the Democratic party. The specter of Specter as a Democrat will enrage Republicans and should come as big...

Hillary Clinton put a brave face on it during her Iraq visit. The spate of bombings in Iraq are "in an unfortunately tragic way, a signal that the rejectionists fear that Iraq is going in the right direction." Well, I guess.

But isn't that the very kind of language that...

Congressional Quarterly (CQ) features a major scoop today about California Rep. Jane Harman that is sending shock waves through Washington, DC. CQ reporter Jeff Stein says that several former top national security officials told him that in 2005 Harman offered to lean on the Bush Justice Department in return for...

The Washington Post features an exposé today by Joby Warrick and Peter Finn that further illuminates the darkest recesses of the Bush administration's so-called "enhanced interrogation program." Numerous psychologists, physicians, and other health officials, the Post reports, played a key role in not only drawing up but also implementing the...

President Obama's audacious economic address at Georgetown University today provided the last swing of the wrecking ball for the shattered remnants of free market fundamentalism. Even as dazed and disoriented members of the GOP stumble around the ruins in a state of cataleptic shock, mumbling over and over to themselves...

President Obama's aides are roaming across Washington, DC on one of their most politically fraught missions. With Easter only a few days away, Obama, as both Fox News and the Washington Times are reporting, has not attended church on Sunday, something that the right is predictably enough adding to its...

The Obama administration's announcement today that it will directly participate in meetings with Iran about its nuclear program is not appeasement or capitulation or kowtowing or any other unflattering term that holdouts on the right will deploy. Instead, it is an overdue move. It isn't America that's put on the...

Remember when President Obama's opponents tried to paint him as wet behind the ears when it came to foreign policy? By any measure, Obama's first presidential trip abroad has dispelled that charge. Again and again, Obama has demonstrated both visionary qualities and practical skills.
It took Obama to settle...

This morning leading neoconservatives such as William Kristol and Robert Kagan held a meeting at the Mayflower Hotel -- in support of President Obama's Afghanistan policy. Kristol and Kagan, as Foreign Policy's Laura Rozen has reported, have formed a successor organization to the Project for the New American Century,...

The chorus of criticism of President Obama's economic plan has been almost deafening, and it isn't coming from Republicans but Democrats. Sure, the Republicans are engaging in scare tactics about tens of trillions in deficits, but it's the liberal naysayers such as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman who've been...

It's becoming increasingly clear that former vice president Dick Cheney is functioning as the most prominent voice of the retrograde right. Forget Rush Limbaugh. This is far better. President Obama should thank his stars every time Cheney emerges from whatever hidden lair he's now lurking in to growl about how...