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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) released a letter Tuesday he sent previously to Attorney General Eric Holder, urging him to implement accountability provisions in the Patriot Act …

The 10-day federal civil trial is over, the verdict is in. The nation's largest union, SEIU, claimed victory on March 9 after a nine-person jury awarded them a total …

We need a new language for understanding public education as formative for democratic institutions.

Rachel Maddow interviews the Chairman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP Elizabeth Warren on bailouts:

Washington - There is something weird going on in the Republican Party when Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn is the voice of reason. There is something dangerous going on in …

Dawn Johnsen was one of Barack Obama's most progressive nominees; a strong voice for the rule of law, her nomination to the Office of Legal Counsel would have been …

President Obama keeps saying that he intends to win the war in Afghanistan. “There will be difficult days ahead, but I am absolutely confident that we will succeed,” he …

From a “strategic partnership” to a spy thriller. That can describe today the trajectory of the special India-US ties, supposed to have been forged during the time of former …

The country is in a bad place at the moment. As Evan Thomas and Eve Conant report this week, we are seeing a disturbing number of threats against lawmakers, …

Let's imagine that the Cold War was a detour. The entire 20th century, in fact, was a detour. Since conflicts among the 20th-century ideologies (liberalism, communism, fascism) cost humanity …