Ezra Klein
Obama’s belated immigration push
(Matt York / AP)
Wonkbook | It’s hard to imagine this Congress, at this moment, turning its attention towards a sober and successful discussion of immigration reform. The administration knows that, and so the president’s speech will call for more outside pressure to force Congress to act.
The debt debate: Keep your eye on these senators
The Morning Fix | President Obama will meet with Senate Democrats Wednesday to talk about the coming debate over raising the debt limit. Here are five Democrats to keep an eye on in that debate.
Huntsman’s difficult political pivot
THE TAKE | He is considering unseating the man who tapped him as ambassador to China.
Harder discussions in deficit talks are yet to come, Van Hollen says
Negotiators in the White House-led talks on reaching a bipartisan deficit-reduction deal made progress at their second meeting, but they have yet to address the toughest issues, one of the Democratic participants in the negotiations said Tuesday evening.
Campaign 2012: The bin Laden factor
West Wing Briefing | In his first 2012 campaign appearances in almost two weeks, President Obama added a new item to a long list of what he views as major accomplishments of his tenure: killing Osama bin Laden.
Ezra Klein
Wonkbook: Boehner's debt-limit demands would increase the deficit
John Boehner's new line on the deficit negotiations is that raising taxes -- by which he appears to also mean closing tax expenditures — "is off the table. But everything else is on the table."
The Federal Eye
Need to recharge your car? Try Capitol Hill.
A bill may soon make it possible to recharge hybrid vehicles on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol.
Right Turn
Muslims fighting against radical jihadists
Muslim scholars and activists try to reclaim their religion
The Fix
The debt debate: Keep your eye on these senators
The Morning Fix | President Obama will meet with Senate Democrats Wednesday to talk about the coming debate over raising the debt limit. Here are five Democrats to keep an eye on in that debate.
The Fix
Afternoon Fix: Jon Huntsman staffs up
Jon Huntsman is staffing up, Mitch Daniels thinks he can beat Obama, the DCCC is going up with ads in New York and Rand Paul wants to know if the president has an “enemies list.”
The Fix
What President Obama’s immigration speech tells us about 2012
How President Obama’s speech on immigration in Texas is indicative of the broader themes¥ of his reelection campaign.
The Fact Checker
Boasting about border security
President Obama, and especially his spokesman, bragged about hiring border agents that was mostly the doing of President Bush.
Al Kamen
A somebody-done-somebody-wrong suit
In the Loop | Al Kamen’s In the Loop column, on a sweeping lawsuit by former special counsel Scott Bloch and some nifty HUD-logo merchandise.
Al Kamen
Important moments in U.S. history
In the Loop | Al Kamen’s In the Loop column on Condoleezza Rice’s contention that her former boss was front and center at what may have been No. 1.
Al Kamen
A death certificate, sort of
In the Loop | The Navy SEALs’ killing of Osama bin Laden has required the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) to give its excellent 2011 Counterterrorism Calendar and weekly planner a little update.
Walter Pincus
What new plans await in Afghanistan?
Over the past six years U.S. contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan have provided a guide to activity on the ground — and may contain clues about what happens in a post-bin Laden future.
Walter Pincus
A new way of advising in Afghanistan
Fine Print | A new Defense Department program places Pentagon civilian employees as advisers to top levels of the Afghan government’s defense and interior ministries.
Joe Davidson
Tell it to the taxpayers
Rep. Tom Marino introduces a bill to freeze federal hiring until the deficit is eliminated. Next, he and other politicians should be upfront about a freeze’s real-life effects.
Joe Davidson
Closing the federal gender pay gap
When it comes to equal pay for equal work, the federal government is significantly closer to that goal than the nation as a whole.
Joe Davidson
Open season ... for rage over insurance premiums?
The Office of Personnel Management is hoping it can get through an insurance open registration while keeping everyone happy.
Dana Milbank
Dana Milbank Live
Dana Milbank answers your questions about politics and his columns and judges your "Etch-a-Sketch" submissions.
Eugene Robinson
No contest
All of the GOP’s potential 2012 candidates are uninspiring or unelectable.
PostPartisan
Barbour’s rise and fall
The fact that Barbour’s candidacy was taken seriously is a sad commentary on the GOP.
Ruth Marcus
Our two deficits
There’s the monetary one and the gap between economic reality and GOP ideology.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Gorbachev at 80
Though poorly appreciated at home, the former Russian leader should be honored for his great vision.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Wisconsin - it's about democracy
Unions' fight is the fight of every U.S. worker.
Robert J. Samuelson
Bernanke rolls the dice
How much can the Fed reduce unemployment without stoking inflation?
Matt Miller
Charting his own course
Will Osama’s demise help Obama escape the problems he inherited?
PostPartisan
Taking away oil’s tax breaks
Dems have a good idea. But it’s still not ambitious enough to raise much money or discourage oil use.
PostPartisan
Boehner wrong on Trump
Sorry, Mr. Speaker. Donald Trump is not ‘a good candidate’ for the GOP nomination.
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Competence on wheels
The critics were wrong about the government’s rescue of Detroit.
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Debt-ceiling absurdities
The supposed deficit hawks really risk increasing our deficits.
Kathleen Parker
An era of 'hard-core women'
Now would be a very good time to be a cartoonist. Or perhaps not. As the late cartoonist Doug Marlette frequently lamented, "How do you cartoon a cartoon? We're living in 'Toon Town.' "
Kathleen Parker
An era of 'hard-core women'
Now would be a very good time to be a cartoonist. Or perhaps not. As the late cartoonist Doug Marlette frequently lamented, "How do you cartoon a cartoon? We're living in 'Toon Town.' "
Michael Gerson
Our next challenge
The U.S. must preempt violence abroad without engaging in nation-building.
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