This story first appeared at Miller-McCune. Slow and steady even in tallying the tragic proves its worth The government of Iraq has at long last released its own count of violent civilian...

Earlier, I noted the possibillity that the US embassy in Kabul may have fired Armor Group guards who were victims of sexually-tined hazing rituals, along with some of the perpetrators of them.  The Project on Government Oversight just released a...

In Nick's post about Ted Kennedy's torch passing to Obama, he wrote that the late senator's seat would be empty for nearly six months while a special election is organized "unless Massachusetts Dems change the law." Reports out ...

This is just odd. In the middle of a recession, after lambasting executives for flying on expensive corporate jets after receiving millions in taxpayer bailout funds, the House has approved $550 million to buy eight new jets for use by members of Con...

If you're a MoJo reader, you're already aware that the Mexican army is committing gross human-rights abuses under the guise of fighting the cartels. Chuck Bowden's amazing profile of a Mexican journalist forced to flee to the US and seek ...

America is known for doing undemocratic things in the name of democracy. Recent example: Afghanistan. Watch Mark Fiore's cartoon below, as he muses: Democracy isn't always pretty. But shouldn't it at least be kind of attractive?  //Here are the...

Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday voted to send the climate and energy bill from Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) out of committee without amending it—thus overriding the Republican boycott of the...

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has encouraged opponents of the Democrats' health care reform to show up at Capitol Hill today at "high noon" to "look at the whites of their eyes and tell them, 'don't you dare take away my health care.'" Nothing...

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Samson Barini, assigned to Charlie 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion, tries to communicate with a small Iraqi boy, as they sit in the court yard of the Manara primary school, north of Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 24. (US Army photo via...

Today's must reads have discovered tweetdeck: AARP to endorse House health reform bill. This is a big deal. (AP) Igor Panarin's Doomsday Tea Party (MoJo) The roots of the coming crash (Reuters)  23 CIA Agents Convicted in Rendition Case (MoJo)...