Most of us know the well-worn, not-quite-a-cliche saying about the definition of insanity. But Republicans either haven't heard or don't care because they're ready to investigate President Clinton for the next 8 years: SOUTH JORDAN, Utah — Jason Chaffetz, the Utah congressman ...read more

On July 14th 2015, TV screens and radio stations in the United States and around the world broadcasted President Obama's fourteen minute statement regarding the Iran nuclear deal. He talked about new beginnings, verification and the stripped capacities of Iran's nuclear program ...read more

The Huffington Post ran a story the other day about the tentative and tenuous nature of the Iran negotiations and its political implications at home and abroad. The article put the prospects for a deal at 50/50. The main thrust of the arguments in the piece focused on the ...read more

The "Taliban Five," prisoners who were released from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, have been cooling their heels under the Qatari government for the past year, but that arrangement is set to run out shortly unless a new deal can be reached with Qatar. The ...read more

Over the weekend, President Obama blasted Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and other Republicans over their treacherous attempts to derail the Iran nuclear deal, singling McCain out over his apparent willingness to trust the Iranian supreme leader over his Vietnam brother and American ...read more

Amid all the consternation over the letter that 47 Republican Senators wrote to the leaders of Iran in order to scuttle a nuclear arms deal, there was heavy speculation about a possible violation of something called the Logan Act. While the White House was happy to stand by and ...read more

Today is a very special day, made even more special by current events. Just yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry announced a seven-month extension of negotiations with Iran over their nuclear program, while under pressure from Congress to ramp up sanctions on the Iranian ...read more

Since President Obama's speech to the nation last week, the administration has been putting together the international coalition that will "degrade and destroy" ISIS. Over the weekend, Secretary of State John Kerry told CBS News' Bob Schieffer that, without announcing specifics, ...read more

As the Israeli military continues its assault on Gaza and those involved and caught up in the conflict prepare for a prolonged campaign, dramatic video purporting to show Israeli airstrikes has surfaced. It shows a complex of buildings in Gaza being virtually leveled to the ...read more

As the violence in Israel continues to escalate, and the public recoils in horror at report after report of innocent Palestinian children being killed in Israeli military strikes, the White House has carefully danced on a bed of the softest eggshells in urging restraint from ...read more

One of the many lines of attack being used to discredit the prisoner swap that set Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl free is the notion that the so-called "Taliban Five" might return to the battlefield and/or destroy America with mind bullets. The Obama administration has offered a variety of ...read more

A favorite pastime of American politicians of both parties is grandstanding on behalf of Israel to appease their pro-Israel benefactors. Republican pols, however, have an added incentive to support the Jewish state because a good chunk of their voting base is composed of ...read more

Reports the Guardian: US secretary of state John Kerry decried what he called a “new isolationism” in the United States on Wednesday and suggested that the country was beginning to behave like a poor nation. Speaking to reporters, Kerry inveighed against what he sees as a ...read more

The outcome of the deal between the US and Iran over the weekend has been called 'historic', and the most significant agreement between Washington and Tehran "since the 1979 Iranian revolution". In a hotel in Geneva after the third round of intensive talks between US Secretary ...read more

By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett As New York prepares for the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly, the volume of Western media speculation about the prospects for a U.S.-Iranian diplomatic breakthrough has mounted to impressive levels. Predictably, ...read more

My favorite tweet of the week comes from Dave Weigel of Slate and MSNBC: Yes, if you thought that the Capitol Hill hearings on the Syria crisis were like a patient uprising inside a psych ward with just Congress in attendance, you can imagine how things got once the Code ...read more

Agree with his policies or not, it's nearly impossible for anyone with a semi-functional brain to deny that in almost any interaction with his counterparts in Congress, Barack Obama is generally the most adult one in the room. If you pare that down to just the Republicans in ...read more

Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons in that nation's ongoing civil war. Full video here. WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry declared Monday that there was "undeniable" evidence of a large-scale chemical weapons attack ...read more

Here's what you should be reading on this Friday morning instead of sitting at your desk thinking of ways to duck out early without the boss seeing you. 1. Strike Out According to John Kerry the U.S. will soon be wrapping up its drone strikes inside Pakistan. Whatever will I ...read more

The Supreme Court may or may not be ready to endorse same sex marriage but the country is.  This week, Senator Lisa Murkowski joined fellow GOP Senators Mark Kirk and Rob Portman and expressed her support for same sex marriage.  I have organized a comedy fundraiser to benefit ...read more

By Bob Cesca: I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm thoroughly excited about the first presidential debate tomorrow night. I can sense it coming down Main Street: something harrowing will in fact occur on that stage and given what we know about the candidates and the expectations ...read more

By Ben Cohen: I met Vanity Fair's contributing editor Craig Unger over a year ago in his apartment New York City while he was researching his recently published book Boss Rove: Inside Karl Rove’s Secret Kingdom of Power. Unger outlined the premise of the book to me and ...read more

I met up with my friend and fellow blogger Oliver Willis yesterday, and he came up with a brilliant take on Mitt Romney: He is the Republican John Kerry. In 2004, John Kerry tried his best to connect with everyday voters, but his aloofness and upper class vernacular made it ...read more

Glenn Greenwald has a list of all the Islamic terrorists being held in America right now. The borders haven't melted yet. For me this issue connects with the attack on John Kerry in 2004 for having the nerve to argue that much of the fight versus terrorism is a law enforcement ...read more

John Kerry at San Francisco Obama rally , originally uploaded by Steve Rhodes . Maybe it's because he's a recent veteran of the biggest war to date with the Republican noise machine, but John Kerry has been great as a surrogate for Sen. Obama. We sure botched the vote on that ...read more