Warren memoir offers revealing inside tales  —  WASHINGTON - Summoned to the White House in September 2010, Elizabeth Warren met President Obama in the Oval Office and he escorted her outside to a garden patio.  Obama described it to Warren as a hidden retreat.

CPI Director On ABC Pulitzer Feud: 'I Don't Take Well To Being Bullied' (VIDEO)  —  Center for Public Integrity Director Bill Buzenberg on Wednesday criticized ABC News for demanding credit for an investigative series that won a Pulitzer Prize this week.  —  “I will say that I don't take …

Veterans and White Supremacy  —  EVANSTON, Ill. — WHEN Frazier Glenn Miller shot and killed three people in Overland Park, Kan., on Sunday, he did so as a soldier of the white power movement: a groundswell that united Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other fringe elements after the Vietnam War …

Rand Paul's Putin problem  —  If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton runs against Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for president in November 2016, and Russian strongman-for-life Vladimir Putin remains in power, Clinton could win a victory approaching a 50-state landslide, including reluctant support …

Sebelius Said to Weigh Run for Kansas Senate Seat  —  WASHINGTON — In her darkest hour last fall, Kathleen Sebelius suffered one of the deepest cuts from an old family friend who accused her of “gross incompetence” over the rollout of the Affordable Care Act and demanded that she resign as secretary of health and human services.

Scarborough blasts Krugman  —  MSNBC's Joe Scarborough is returning fire on Paul Krugman after the New York Times columnist accused him of being an “Obamacare truther” who was didn't know his facts and was “against covering the uninsured.”  —  In an email to POLITICO, Scarborough suggested …

Feds accused of leaving trail of wreckage after Nevada ranch standoff  —  The federal agency that backed down over the weekend in a tense standoff with a Nevada rancher is being accused of leaving a trail of wreckage behind.  —  Fox News toured the damage — allegedly caused by the Bureau …

JW Obtains IRS Documents Showing Lerner in Contact With DOJ about Potential Prosecution of Tax-Exempt Groups  —  May 9, 2013, email reveals IRS plans to meet with Department of Justice over whether to prosecute groups that “lied” about plans for political activity

Abortion Endures as a Political Tripwire  —  Why is there such a difference in the durability of two foundational issues of American conservatism: gay marriage and abortion?  —  Same-sex marriage burst onto the political scene in the early 1990s, lasted through the mid-2000s, and is now quietly fading.

Nato to step up presence near Russian borders  —  Air patrols and warships in Baltic and eastern Mediterranean will be increased to reassure Nato members in eastern Europe  —  Nato has announced it is stepping up its presence around Russian borders to reassure eastern European member states …

Income Inequality Institute Will Pay Paul Krugman $25,000 Per Month  —  In late February, the City University of New York announced that it had tapped Princeton economist and New York Times blogger Paul Krugman for a distinguished professorship at CUNY's Graduate Center and its Luxembourg Income Study Center …

Progressives are wrong about the essence of the Constitution  —  In a 2006 interview, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said the Constitution is “basically about” one word — “democracy” — that appears in neither that document nor the Declaration of Independence.  Democracy is America's way of allocating political power.

Jimmy Carter comes out against Keystone XL pipeline  —  Former president Jimmy Carter has joined a group of Nobel laureates who oppose construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, warning President Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry, “You stand on the brink of making a choice that will define …

Law firm hired by Christie for internal probe donated $10K in 2014 to RGA  —  Nine days before a team of its top lawyers made public a report clearing Governor Christie in the George Washington Bridge scandal, the law firm donated $10,000 to the Republican Governors Association, a group he heads.

John Roberts and the Color of Money  —  Applying the history of white supremacy in America to the Supreme Court's McCutcheon decision  —  There has been plenty of talk about the Ta-Nehisi Coates-Jonathan Chait argument over the term “black culture” in the context of the ills of poverty …

President Obama, Eric Cantor talk immigration - sort-of  —  President Barack Obama spoke with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor about immigration reform on Wednesday, hours after the president sharply criticized House Republicans for stalling an overhaul this year.