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The presidential election has been all over the media for months (prompting The Daily Show’s apt segment title “Endless Suffrage”), but political junkies like me who want to [...]

I have an op-ed in the paper today expanding on the problems with new legislation that is pushing the US toward war with Iran. I was in Iran in 2009 when a family invited me into their home for [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7BK7hVb-w&feature=player_embedded] Last week, two dozen senators led by Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Max Baucus (D-MT) sent a letter to President Obama [...]

On the rollercoaster ride that is relations between the US and Iran, we are once again at a high point of tension. Unfortunately, many members of Congress are following their typical approach of [...]

Last week, your messages helped convince 87 members of the House, Democrats and Republicans, to sign on to a letter to the president saying that it’s time to get out of Afghanistan.  Great work! [...]

Last Friday, 87 House members sent a letter to President Obama stating support for a plan to accelerate the end of combat operations in Afghanistan (as announced by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q9LdLN42WJ4] The Senate spent much of this week debating the 2012 Defense Authorization bill, plowing through a slew of [...]

Earlier today, the US Senate passed Sen. Jeff Merkley’s amendment requiring a plan for an accelerated withdrawal from Afghanistan by a voice vote. No matter how loudly Sen. John McCain [...]

This week, the Senate is planning to vote on the international affairs budget—money for everything from nuclear nonproliferation to vaccinations to conflict prevention to feeding the poor. Some [...]

A few months ago, I wrote about how the House of Representatives eviscerated the foreign affairs budget in the 2012 budget process. Throughout the summer, we mobilized to pressure the Senate to [...]