Category Archives: Politics

Earlier in this space, the Post’s Joel Achenbach wrote in defense of Lois Lerner . Proving that reasonable people can disagree, just a few hours later we awarded the now-former head of the IRS’ tax-exempt arm the “Worst Week in Washington”. Here’s an excer

“As we've seen again in recent days, it only takes the misconduct of a few to further erode the people's trust in their government,” Obama said Friday in a speech at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. “And that's unacceptable to me, and I know it's unacc

Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on the controversial warrant application that the Justice Department used to obtain the personal emails of a Fox News reporter. The warrant, which was obtained after the Justice Department identified Fox News reporte

congress, i think that the politics of this is very, very difficult. they have transferred out a number of detainees. but the politics of congress, it is not in my backyard thing. how many members of congress are now going to say, you know, okay, nothing is

After several years of recruiting technologists to spend a year in city halls across America, the organization will bring programmers, designers and other techies into close contact with governments in each of those three places to work on a specific probl

announced late Tuesday that he would run for mayor of New York. He’s received a lot of attention in his first few days back in politics. But much of it hasn’t been the good kind. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Since kicking off his bid for political redemption,

it is very hard to remove someone like that. that's why in a sense, that's why the civil service was created, to remove it from the politics. i'm not defending the conduct of her employees. i think at the worst thing you can say about them, she was inaccurate.

>>> joining me here in studio is michael leiter , nbc news terrorism expert and the former director of the national counterterrorism center . the president said that all of these years after 9/11, that it's time to move on and redefine this. and in fact, f

>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington, a day after trying to redefine and narrow the war america has been fighting against terrorism since 9/11, president obama made the case for a more limited drone war in his speech at the naval academy graduate

>>> in many ways, the story of american democracy is a paradox, the wealthiest nation on earth, yet one of the most unequal. the land of the american dream , yet still one of limited social mobility . the institutions that used to bind americans to one ano