The relentless drumbeat about “Zero Dark Thirty” centers on its depiction of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on a detainee named Ammar who provided the initial tip on a courier whose tracking became crucial in the 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden. That’s...
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'Zero Dark Thirty.'
Zero Dark Thirty: A Tale Told Well
Shaun Donovan, U.S. secretary of housing and urban development, speaks at the Bloomberg Washington Summit in Washington, on May 1, 2012. Photograph by Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg
Obama’s Housing Secretary Post-Sandy ‘Point-Person’
Speaking before residents of storm-ravaged Staten Island, President Barack Obama announced Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan will be the “point-person” for the federal government’s rebuilding efforts after superstorm Sandy in New York. “He knows a little bit about New York and...
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People celebrate in front of the White House on Nov. 7, 2012.
Reddest Reds, Bluest Blues: Obama-Romney Contest
Now that we’ve left behind the obsessive coverage and minute slicing-and-dicing of the swing states that constituted the end-all and be-all of the 2012 presidential election, we were left wondering: Where did the landslides occur? Defining that as any place where one of...
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Senator Charles Schumer, vice chair of the Democratic Conference and chair of the Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Center, speaks at the Monitor Breakfast, on Nov. 8, 2012.
Whack-a-Karl Rove: The Piling-On
Democrats are having some fun at the expense of Karl Rove this week. First it was Ohio’s Sen. Sherrod Brown, re-elected this week, taking stock of how little impact the super-PAC engineered by the former Republican White House political strategist...
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Representative Cornelius "Connie" Mack and his wife, Representative Mary Bono Mack, a Republican from California, at the RNC.
Endangered List: California and N.Y. House Incumbents
California and New York enter Election Day as the two states with the highest number of endangered House incumbents, according to the latest ratings by political analyst Charlie Cook. Each state counts six incumbents most likely not to return to...
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Rep. Nan Hayworth conducts a news conference in the Capitol after a meeting of the House Republican Conference.
Dr. Hayworth Writes a Prescription: $100,000 for Her Campaign
As an incumbent, Rep. Nan Hayworth, a New York Republican, hasn’t needed to pull out her own checkbook the way she did when she first ran for Congress two years ago. Hayworth, an ophthalmologist who contributed $500,000 to her 2010 campaign,...
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President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and others attend the 67th annual Al Smith dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Oct. 18, 2012 in New York.
Obama, Romney at Charity Dinner: `More Sons… Than Jobs’
“It’s nice to relax and wear what Ann and I wear around the house,” Republican Mitt Romney said at a white-tie dinner. “We’re down to the final months of the president’s term,” Romney said, with President Barack Obama, also in...
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney listens as President Barack Obama during their second debate.
Obama: Romney’s `One-Point Plan’
Jeremy Epstein, a 20-year-old college student, told the candidates for president tonight that all he hears about is what little chance he will have to find employment. “Your question is one that’s being asked by college kids all over this...
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Sean Patrick Maloney is interviewed at Roll Call in Washington, D.C.
Meeting Clinton: Candidate’s Raffle
Sean Patrick Maloney, the Democrat taking on freshman Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth of New York in Hudson Valley, is getting some help from his former boss, Bill Clinton. The former president is going to host a reception with Maloney, whose...
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Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, speaks at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sept. 5, 2012.
Schumer Draws Line on Tax Rates
Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, says any savings from closing tax loopholes should be used to reduce the federal deficit, not to lower tax rates for wealthy Americans. Schumer backed the 1986 tax reform legislation that did cut...
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