Court Rules That the Government Can Hide Its Own Report on CIA Torture
The executive branch and the Senate have played hot potato with an infamous torture report, allowing the CIA to evade the Freedom of Information Act.
The executive branch and the Senate have played hot potato with an infamous torture report, allowing the CIA to evade the Freedom of Information Act.
While the former congressman cares a lot about war powers, he has often flip-flopped on actually enforcing Congress’ red lines.
War on Terror fears and the CIA’s torture program kept Khalid Sheikh Mohammed out of civilian courts—and prevented true justice from being served.
It's good to hear a candidate actually talk about our spending problem. But his campaign promises would exacerbate it.
The late U.S. diplomat helped form America’s policies towards Iran, Iraq, and Israel. By the end of his life, he'd had enough.
Many of the Washington hawks calling for war with Iran had sworn up and down that more pressure was not a path to war.
Despite their informal nature, those norms have historically constrained U.S. fiscal policy. But they're eroding.
The same tactics used to justify drone strikes are now being used to demonize immigrant men.
All of the unfinished U.S. conflicts in the Middle East are coming together into one big crisis for Biden.
Rising bond yields mean the national debt is going to be a lot more expensive in the next few years, and we just keep adding to it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is singularly responsible for the war that began this week. But the past four presidential administrations missed opportunities to deescalate.
Under Obama, Trump, and now Biden, U.S. arms deals with Saudi Arabia have perpetuated a humanitarian crisis.
Biden has tapped her to be assistant secretary for civil rights yet again.
His rumored candidate for CIA director, Michael Morell, is raising alarms.
Trump's immigration record is uniquely appalling but he didn't do it all by himself. Before you start building cages, you should ask how your political opponents might use them.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says that information is confidential. Government watchdogs say that excuse is bogus.
Plus: Homeland Security has detained thousands of pregnant women, Ginsburg wrong about "seamless" contraception coverage, and more...
And whether it balances at all depends on some creative accounting. Meanwhile, it proposes $2 billion in new spending on the border wall.
In three years in office, Trump has added more to the national debt than President George W. Bush did in his entire two terms.
Warren doesn't merely want to turn back the clock to the pre-Trump era. She wants to raise taxes and regulations far beyond the levels of the late Obama-Biden administration.
For the second year in a row, federal prosecutions for sex trafficking of children have dropped.
At tonight's Democratic debate, Joe Biden totally whiffed on a question about deportation stats. He should be forthcoming about his record on immigration.
The indictment of former White House counsel Gregory Craig gives Trump the opportunity to rein in the Justice Department without seeming partisan
The feds are $234 billion in the red. Looking for hope? Sen. Mike Enzi has some ideas.
It doesn't matter how healthy options are if kids won't eat them.
The Kentucky Republican is glad Trump stripped ex-CIA Director John Brennan of his security clearance. But Trump shouldn't stop there, Paul says.
The administration says its proposal will make cars more affordable and save lives.
Trump extends Obama's war on leakers, jeopardizing a free press.
Lots of administration official log-rolling in The Final Year, but little actual analysis
This whole miscarriage of justice on campus is overblown, one CU professor says.
Now that it's in Trump's hands, even the illusion of responsibility is fading.
The report's removal from the White House website was totally standard operating procedure.
Justice Department announces tripling of investigations.
DAPA proved particularly controversial among libertarian legal scholars.
Federal regulations drained $1.9 trillion (with a "t") out of the American economy last year.
Welcome to the club! Now let us tell you how to fix it.
How municipal broadband drains local taxpayers
Whistleblower who helped make WikiLeaks famous freed after seven years.
Awful Obama administration-era reforms are being scaled back slightly. School lunches will still stink.
In "All the President's Friends: Political Access and Firm Value," finance professors outline three ways government meetings may be valuable to companies.
We've been incessantly assured there's nothing to this story. Perhaps.
But it will not bring back a lot of coal mining jobs.
Removal of Obama Administration's orders erases question about whether the courts should defer.
Trump to withdraw Obama administration's guidance, but that doesn't actually stop case moving forward.
A sad example of how arbitrary politically motivated bureaucratic decisions are replacing the rule of law