TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE ON IRAQ By William E. Odom, LT General, USA, Ret. 2 April 2008 Good morning Mr. Chairman and...
Brian Wolff | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics
Democrats are now slated to have at least 75 races in play -- a more than 50% increase from 2006.
Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics
It's time for what's become a semiannual ritual: General David Petraeus comes to Capitol Hill. Last September, the top military commander in Iraq test...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
If only Maliki had waited two or three weeks, Petraeus and Crocker could have testified that everything was hunky-dory in Iraq, and gotten out of Washington unscathed.
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Congress' ban on Internet gambling is so vague that figuring out how to enforce it is a struggle, say federal officials charged wit...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Don't blame us, oil industry chiefs told a skeptical Congress. Top executives of the country's five biggest oil companies said Tues...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Many more Republicans than Democrats are stepping down this year, making it almost impossible for the GOP to make gains.
Washington Independnent | Mike Lillis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Last week, as Wall Street was flailing over the collapse of one of its largest investment banks, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) took a podium and told me...
Jane Smiley | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
Being against the Iraq War wasn't hard -- it was easy. The Iraq War made no sense, even as a wish. To wish for a war on someone else's soil is to wish death and destruction on others.
Tom Andrews | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
Even the reduction of violence promoted daily by Bush and the Iraq war apologists lacks credibility.
Robert Naiman | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
Surely the fact that just over a quarter of adults could say about how many Americans had been killed in Iraq represents an indictment of our media and the actions of our political leaders.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
That she has been able to stay in the race at all is a testament to the power of the Clinton name, the Dem's ludicrous electoral system, and her hold over a petrified media and the party's bureaucratic elite.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.20.2008 | Business
Unlike Wall Street, the plight of heating oil users is not a self inflicted disaster, but the culmination of this government's energy policies, which have been an unmitigated disaster.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
In a presidential campaign infused like never before with the candidates' efforts to sell their religious beliefs as best-fitting an illusory mainstream, Obama hasn't quite pulled it off.
Tom Andrews | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
In a presidential debate in 1980, President Ronald Reagan asked American voters: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" On the fifth anni...
Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
On the whole, Congress squeaked by with a passing grade in 2007, but there is considerable room for improvement.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business
The price of oil has diverged from fundamentals in such a dramatic way that it is placing our economy at grave and immediate risk.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.
Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
If the middle class could give your Congressmember a grade, what would it be? Today, DMI releases grades for every senator and representative, evalua...
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
It's impossible to describe the relationship between politicians, lobbyists, corporations, and campaign cash -- and have it come out sounding different than what a prostitute does for a living.
Ari Melber | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
Tuesday's Washington Post reports that House Democrats are close to granting all of President Bush's demands for more domestic spying powers and telecommunications amnesty, in exchange for, well, nothing.
CNN | Mike Mount | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
The Chinese military continues to increase spending on efforts to break into U.S. military computer systems, expand its Navy, and invest in interconti...
Michael Russnow | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business
It is time for our representatives in Washington to pass a law that puts the responsibility on those who accept credit cards to make certain that the card holder is the person in whose name it is issued.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
Not well enough: 231 members scored 60 percent or lower on our scorecard -- a failing grade from our school days.
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics
Oscar-winning producer Alex Gibney's words remind me of the veterans and other military people who are faced with what must be one of the biggest crises of civil-military relations in recent history.
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BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
If you're wondering about the recent articles claiming that a study found...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
AfterDowningStreet.org | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics