In an angry speech, Feinstein asserted that the CIA has violated federal laws by covertly removing classified documents from her committee's comput...

Nothing gets conspiracy theorists going more than a passenger plane crashing under mysterious circumstances.

Earlier this winter, Debbie Dingell made time for a chat over lunch at Bistro Bis, a Capitol Hill watering hole not far from the office of her husb...

Ukrainian security officials are complaining that unknown attackers are interfering with the mobile phone services of members of Ukraine's parliame...

Privacy advocates say we should care about privacy because its erosion threatens liberty. "A human being who lives in a world in which he thinks he...

One topic where pundits, politicians and prognosticators of every persuasion don't have any problem about making pessimistic predictions is terrorism.

New mothers usually take at least some time off after delivering a baby, but dads are less likely to take leave. Advocates are pushing more dads to...

Others, including Tim Wu, a Columbia Law School professor and advocate for net neutrality, said the interconnection agreement between Comcast and N...

Forget Russian figure skater Julia Lipnitskaia spinning in a blur with her leg impossibly held straight up against her ear. The sight of skier Bode...

Like it or not, we’re having a national flashback to the 1990s—replete with images of thong underwear near the Oval Office, semen-stained blue dres...

Liza Mundy: "[Hillary] uses the phrase 'pain threshold,' and she talks about how people in Washington have a pain threshold that is too low. It sou...

The U.S. government's long-stated position is that it won't negotiate with terrorists. But are there exceptions?

The controversy began—as virtually all political and religious debate in Saudi Arabia does these days—with a provocative tweet. On January 18th, So...

President Barack Obama is the first American president known to have authorized the assassination of a US citizen.

Last week President Obama urged businesses to “give America a raise.” But even if the minimum wage were raised, it wouldn’t necessarily help a huge...

Ah, public service, among the noblest of callings, pursued by selfless individuals who have laid aside greed, ego or other personal gain, devoting ...

When even al Qaeda publicly rejects you because you are too brutal, it's likely a reasonable indicator that you are. A long simmering dispute betwe...

Young and entrepreneurial, the Nusra Front is distinguishing itself among jihadis in pushing both for a coalitionist approach to the Syrian power v...

Abu Mohammed al-Golani, head of the al-Qaeda aligned Jabhat al-Nusra, has become not only a consensus-building leader in the midst of Syrian chaos,...

That any American politician is truly self-made is a pretty hilarious notion. While some start out poor or disadvantaged, along the way every polit...

Retailers don’t really talk about how to compete with Amazon—they talk about how to avoid being decimated by it. Up until now, companies have used ...

The National Retail Federation held its annual convention in New York this week, drawing thousands of industry leaders keen to figure out how they’...