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South Dakota Senate race back to a Republican lead

Will an enormous GOP advantage in national polls give candidates in a few crucial tight races the mom...

Hillary Clinton: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you corporations and businesses create jobs’

In a (probably futile) effort to save Martha Coakley’s bid for governor of Massachusetts, Hillary Cli...

Terrorism & ‘The True Believer’

We are now on both sides of the Sunni-Shia sectarian struggle that has never been America's war, and ...

Conservative Maness campaigns to be king of the Jungle Primary

Maness, the retired Air Force fighter pilot, is not intimidated by long odds, or a difficult mission ...

The Long War

Hassan-i Sabbah of Nizari Ismailis founded a cult that presented a major military challenge to Persia...

Obama and a Republican Senate

Politico considers how the White House would operate with a Republican Senate: Nervous that Democrats...

New technologies help clean up coal piles from PA communities

Coal-waste dumps are a serious, well-known problem for communities intimate with King Coal, yet the m...

The Ebola rebellion

The governors of New York and New Jersey had the right idea, but they implemented it badly, and now t...

A president who doesn’t seek advice?

The Government Accountability Institute reports that President Obama continues to skip the majority o...

The nastiest political tactic this year

The attempted criminalization of politics to silence people occupying just one portion of the politic...

Islam???s ???good cop/bad cop??? routine

Yet one more piece of evidence tying the United States to the Islamic State recently came to light....

Mary Burke’s taxing resume problems

This article originally appeared on watchdog.org. MADISON, Wis. — Mary Burke’s resume, much like the ...

Workers stuck paying plush AFL-CIO union salaries

AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., used money taken from workers to pay union officers and emp...

The Optimistic GOP story everyone is missing

The vast majority of political journalists — and I include some of my conservative colleagues — are m...