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Well, I’ve been on a desert island since the election–and I return to find the tawdry sadness of David Petraeus‘ resignation after a lifetime of service to our country. And the even more tawdry attempts by various Republicans to create a scandal over the tragic deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in the Benghazi terror attack.
Tensions are still running high in the Middle East, and the potential for hostilities to reignite in the coming weeks remains
Two of the loudest House Tea Partyers lost.
It’s not every day that a politician behaves like a jerk in front of a reporter.
Nearly 100 House Republicans sent a letter to President Obama on Monday urging him not to name Susan Rice as Hillary Clinton’s successor at the State Department. Its tortured reasoning exposes the flimsiness of the GOP’s …
Marco Rubio takes his first steps toward 2016 by telling GQ that he’s “not a scientist”
Images capture President Obama’s historic tour of Burma, the first visit to the isolated nation by an American head of state.
The fiscal cliff would be a bear for all Americans, but it would devastate U.S. cities
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has emerged as a high-risk, high-reward contender for the role of Secretary of State in President Obama’s second term
There are countless unknowns still swirling around the Affordable Care Act. Its ultimate price tag is anyone’s guess. Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision to make the ACA’s Medicaid expansion optional, there’s no way to predict how many uninsured people will gain new coverage. But one of the biggest mysteries shrouding the law …
How Petraeus failed to cover his tracks
Nearly a year ago, Barack Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina took to YouTube with an expletive-laden post-holiday message for supporters. “People have speculated that this is a billion dollar campaign,” Messina said. …
