Frank Rich on The Promise, Jonathan Alter’s book about the first year of the Obama administration.

The third article in the Post‘s series on the U.S. intelligence system looks beyond D.C.

Part I | Part II

The second article in the Post’s three-part series on America’s intelligence operation looks at the system’s dependence on private contractors.

The first article in the Post‘s three-part series on America’s intelligence operation, a system that has exploded since 9/11 and is “so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.”

How Christopher Hitchens, a former socialist, became one of the most vigorous defenders of the war in Iraq.

Sandinista, reverend, and president of the U.N. General Assembly.

A profile of Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the sixth-highest paid lobbyist in the country. Since Obama took office, Donohue has scared-up tens of millions in new donations.

On January 1st, 2011, the U.S. estate tax will jump from zero to around 50%, which gives a lot of very rich elders (or perhaps more accurately, their heirs) millions of dollars in incentive to expedite death.

The nihilistic confessions of a presidential campaign reporter who covered Giuliani, Huckabee, and Clinton for Newsweek—and who last month wrote the RS story that took down Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

What exactly is going on politically in Thailand?

The rise and fall of NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association), from its 1970s founding as a splinter group within the gay rights movement to its current incarnation as the most reviled organization in America.

Political races don’t run on ideas and grassroots activism–they run on voter databases. And no one has more voter data than Aristotle Inc., whose information has helped elect every president since Reagan.