Instead of a news cycle or two of pundits chewing over whether it’s fair game for the most powerful Republican in the U.S. to attack a would-be opponent for suffering from depression, the story has become a scandal about a …
Jay-Z Boasts of Cuba Trip Amid Republican Outrage
In Jay-Z’s new song “Open Letter,” he says his five-year anniversary trip to Cuba with wife Beyoncé was cleared by the White House. UPDATED.
The NRA’s Slippery Slope Strategy To Fight Background Checks
To hear the National Rifle Association tell it, the biggest problem with the bipartisan agreement to expand criminal background checks is what it doesn’t propose to do.
GOP Rank And File Fight Back Against Party Elite In Hollywood
Republican officials fiercely debated the definition of marriage, immigration reform, Latino and black community outreach, and if delegates are free to nominate any presidential candidate at the party’s national convention.
The Pentagon’s 2014 Budget: The Joint Chiefs of Chaff
The Joint Chiefs hope that a budget deal will be struck that will give them the $526.6 billion they asked for Wednesday, and not the roughly $475 billion they’re slated to get.
“We’re in deep doo doo.”
— Former Vice President Dick Cheney to Republican leaders in Congress Tuesday on the ongoing crisis in North Korea, according to CNN.
Syria: A War Obama Doesn’t Want
Why Obama keeps his distance from the rebels in Syria
Morning Must Reads: April 11
In the news: Senator Rand Paul, the GOP and race, Syria, Obama’s approval rating, and the Masters.
Take Cover! It’s NoKo New Year
North Korea’s cult of personality explains the latest provocations from Pyongyang
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Why Congress May Finally Do a Budget Deal
Congress will turn from do-nothing to no-dither
President Obama’s 2014 Budget Remarks (Transcript)
President Obama released today his 2014 budget from the White House Rose Garden.
“I would point out that if you're a believer in in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.”
— Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) at a hearing Wednesday discussing the Keystone XL pipeline, according to Buzzfeed.
10 Years After the Fall of Baghdad: A Cautionary Tale
TIME International Editor Bobby Ghosh recalls a harrowing experience in Saddam Hussein’s occupied palace. Ghosh was TIME’s Baghdad bureau chief from 2006-2011.