Representatives of the United States and the Taliban are expected to meet over the next few days in Doha, Qatar, to discuss an end to the 12 year old war in Afghanistan directly with that country's government. Read More

Republicans didn't do a very good job appealing to women in the 2012 election. And once again, they're putting their far-right base over the interests of many women by pushing a strict new measure to limit abortion. Read More

"Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American," Snowden told Guardian readers Monday. Read More

Clifford Sloan will be the lead negotiator for the transfer of detainees abroad. The position had been vacant since January. Read More

Lawmakers in the U.S. and international leaders alike seek answers to the same dilemma: Are there any good solutions to the crisis in Syria? Read More

After two months of controversies, the president's approval rating is taking a hit, particularly with two of his stalwart support groups. Read More

U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries — and that gathered data is destroyed every five years. Read More

Former Vice President Dick Cheney - no fan of the Obama administration - defended the NSA's newly disclosed surveillance program and called its leaker a traitor. Read More

The self-identified "author of the Patriot Act" says he's dismayed by how the Act is being used by the Obama administration. But he might not be surprised if he'd attended the relevant briefings. Read More

The White House is close to announcing a new State Department envoy responsible for the prison at Guantanamo Bay, a major step towards shuttering it. Read More

The “treason” talk isn’t just legally wrong — it raises the specter of some of the worst rhetorical excesses of the Bush/Cheney years Read More

Rep. Keith Ellison says he remains unsatisfied after receiving a briefing on the NSA surveillance program. Read More

If privacy is dead, Big Government isn't the killer--Big Business is. Many Americans are outraged by disclosures showing the government has been collecting info on a massive scale. But private industry has been snooping on an even more massive scale for years. Read More

The White House has a bipartisan problem on its hand, just as the contractor at the heart of the NSA scandal is hoping to expand the world of outside contractors. Read More

As Congress begins probing the release of documents that revealed details of an NSA surveillance program Monday, most lawmakers are condemning the disclosures as a threat to national security. But some in both parties see the program as an example of dangerous government overreach. Read More

A 2012 report on security clearance determinations showed 4.9 million people had security clearance and, of those, 483,263 contractors hold top secret clearances. Read More

The latest steady trickle of national security leaks now has a public face. On Sunday, The Guardian revealed the identity of the man behind the release of… Read More

“The only people who have been harmed [by the NSA surveillance leak] are those in power who want to conceal their actions and wrongdoing from the people who they’re supposed to be accountable," Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald said on Monday's Morning Joe. Read More

President Obama said he had a "very constructive conversation" with Chinese President Xi Jinping after the two leaders met for a two-day summit to discuss U.S.-China relations and cybersecurity. Read More