The acclaimed filmmaker makes the liberal's case for watching Fox News
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger ditched the World Economic Forum in Davos Tuesday, fearing his attendance at an event hosted by Britain's Conservative Prime Minister would identify him as a right-winger. Is Mick hiding something?
President Obama's plea to ban Congressional insider trading may poll well and have bipartisan support, but it's already facing stiff resistance from lawmakers the morning after his State of the Union address.
President Obama has the chance to talk to the biggest audience he'll get before the election in November. We're liveblogging the speech -- plus the reactions from Republicans, the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and everyone else, starting at about 8p.m.
The Republican Party won't be the only group trying to contrast its message with President Obama's State of the Union address tonight: The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street want their say, too.
Herman Cain will be delivering the Tea Party response to the State of the Union tonight—not that any basic cable viewers will notice.
The latest plot twist in Stephen Colbert's continuing civics lesson on campaign finance came last night: he announced that he would not run for president and demanded Jon Stewart give him back his but The Daily Show host refused. We asked a lawyer what's going on.
President Obama's State of the Union address will focus on manufacturing and job creation Tuesday night but because he's governing over a divided Congress in an election year, it will largely set the stage for a year of gridlock and bickering.
All signs point to a hotly-contested special election to fill the vacant seat left by outgoing Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. But as she resigns this week to focus on her recovery from last year's shooting, the Arizona Democrat leaves behind a few distinct advantages for her party.
In something of an exit interview with The New York Times Magazine, retiring Congressman Barney Frank took the opportunity to score one last dig against Newt Gingrich, bookending their drawn out match of verbal fisticuffs.
Relations between U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan troops are at an all time low, according to a spate of new reports.
The Fox Business host likes Rachel Maddow, libertarianism, and martial arts
It sounds like a laughable question but last night, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the editor of the Jerusalem Post that the two main enemies facing Israel are The New York Times and Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Stephen Colbert's faux presidential run has created an unlikely celebrity out of Trevor Potter—the meticulous yet amiable election lawyer guiding Colbert audiences through the thorny world of campaign super PACs.
The Obama administration's decision to block the Keystone XL pipeline Wednesday ignited protests on the right and jubilation on the left.
If there's one thing the info war between the White House and Jodi Kantor has made clear, it's that waging a successful whisper campaign in Washington is damn near impossible.
In his deepest dive yet into the intricacies of campaign finance law, Stephen Colbert blazed through a series of open-ended questions about super PACs last night, and even schooled at least one seasoned political reporter.
Reliable exercise partners rarely postpone. And if they do, it's in poor taste to point fingers behind each other's back. But this week longtime exercise couple Israel and the U.S. are breaking all the rules.
Texas governor Rick Perry caused something of an international incident Monday, suggesting that longtime NATO-ally Turkey was ruled by "Islamic terrorists."
Iranians won't return the advanced RQ-170 Sentinel drone downed in their country late last year but they will give the White House a toy replica.
The productivity guru shares his media diet and reveals some handy tips for combatting writer's block
Much of the press is done picking over the gossipy bits of meat on the carcass of Jodi Kantor's book The Obamas and is now inclined to toe the White House line that it never should've been written. Oh what a fickle world!
The direct order Newt Gingrich gave to a pro-Gingrich super PAC to alter its anti-Mitt Romney ads raises an immediate question: Isn't it illegal for candidates to coordinate with their super PACs?
If Stephen Colbert's announcement to explore a presidential run was one part ratings ploy, it was at least two parts civics lesson.
If Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Navy has a backup plan to save one-fifth of the world's daily oil trade: send in the dolphins.
“I am proud to announce that I am forming an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork for my possible candidacy for president of the United States of America of South Carolina,” Colbert said.
When 32-year-old Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was assassinated in a car bomb attack Wednesday, Iran immediately accused Israel of carrying out the attack. At this point, it's increasingly difficult to argue to the contrary.
It's the most dangerous career track you could choose, if you believe Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency.
The future of broadcast television isn't the only thing at stake in the Supreme Court's case weighing the constitutionality of "indecency" rules governing prime-time television—a ruling could also affect radio censorship.
The White House campaign to destroy the credibility of Jodi Kantor's new book The Obamas added a tinge of racial angst Wednesday morning, when First Lady Michelle Obama appeared on CBS This Morning denouncing her portrayal as an "angry black woman."
The latest effort to discredit Jodi Kantor's new book The Obamas suggests that critics of the White House tome are grasping at straws to impugn its veracity.
Outgoing White House chief-of-staff Bill Daley had a famously bad relationship with Democrats in Congress but will Jack Lew, his newly-appointed successor, do any better?
No one's ever considered Michelle Obama a docile first lady, but the catalog of aggressive confrontations and benign squabbles in Jodi Kantor's new book The Obamas are among the revelations that are making the most noise.
The combined effect of Ron Paul's campaign commercials and the attacks ads released by his supporters is making for a blistering day of negative campaigning.
If you're the best-looking member in Congress, that won't guarantee you a high-ranking committee chair but it will bring you coveted media attention.
The choir of typically-cautious market analysts reviewing the new jobs report, in which unemployment fell to a three-year low of 8.5 percent, are positively glowing at signs the economy is growing at a fast-than-expected clip.
The Obama administration's new defense strategy unveiled today says China is actively trying to curb America's military might but, in covert and overt ways, the Defense Department is bulking up its presence in the Middle Kingdom's backyard.
Pot shots abound in the think tank world today following a report about a new right-wing advocacy group designed to rival the Center for American Progress's media arm Think Progress.
Despite growing calls for President Obama to call Iran's bluff in the Strait of Hormuz, the Islamic republic could credibly close off the waterway, according to military experts speaking to Reuters and The New York Times.
The William J. Clinton Foundation has released its contributor information for 2011, a veritable who's who of rich, international donors.
Defense cutbacks became less of a theory and more of a reality Wednesday, as Boeing announced the planned closure of one of its oldest airplane plants in Kansas and a separate report indicated a coming reduction of the Air Force's fleet.
The White House is denying a plan to release high-ranking Taliban officials held in Guantanamo Bay in exchange for an agreement by the Afghan insurgency to open a political office to begin peace negotiations in Qatar.
Congressman Ron Paul's strong third place showing in Iowa Tuesday is garnering the libertarian firebrand a newfound respect and fear amongst the GOP establishment.
Startling analysts, U.S. stocks soared today, the first day of trading for 2012, with the Dow jumping 180 points and the S&P 500 up 1.5 percent.
For tips on sweeping a room for surreptitious surveillance devices, look no further than the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Sometimes the military would prefer its enemies writhing in pain as opposed to dead on the ground. For times like that, it enlists the Joint Non-Lethal Directorate, which produces a reference book of in-use and next-generation fantasy weapons for the military.
This week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is poised to deliver a humbling assessment of America's military capabilities in a budget plan to the White House, reports The New York Times.
NBC News has responded to criticisms that correspondent Andrea Mitchell stereotyped the state of Iowa as "too white, too evangelical, too rural" to represent the U.S. electorate Monday, telling The Atlantic Wire she was merely citing critics who feel that way.
If it weren't for the corporate influence over U.S. copyright laws, the brilliant works that would be in the public domain this year include Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues, Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp, and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King.
If even your grandmother is on Twitter, you can bet terrorists are too. And that's what got the micro-blogging service in trouble this weekend, as an Israeli legal group threatened to sue Twitter for allowing terrorist organizations such as al-Shabaab and Hezbollah to use its services.
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