Politics

President Obama is likely to talk about the need for greater transparency in U.S. drone strikes when he delivers a speech this afternoon at the National Defense University.

If you find yourself waxing nostalgic for the kind of 1970s investigative journalism that led to the Watergate hearings, you can now relive the chills and thrills of the Washington Post investigation.

The law requires the IRS to determine whether a group is a social welfare organization, which is allowed some political activity, or a political group, which must disclose its donors.

At a hearing today, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee said the IRS’s targeting of tea party and conservative groups seems to be part of a culture of cover-ups.

President Obama delivers the commencement address this weekend at Morehouse College, the all-male historically black college. The school’s president discusses recent controversies and challenges.

The Justice Department says Attorney General Eric Holder removed himself from a decision to subpoena phone records of The Associated Press.

President Obama says anyone at the IRS responsible for targeting conservative groups should be held accountable. And he pushed back strongly against fresh Republican criticism over Benghazi.

A new poll shows former Republican South Carolina governor Mark Sanford with a one percentage-point lead over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in their battle for the S.C. 1st District congressional race.

Pastor Jim Wallis is an active public religious leader, but last election season he went on a retreat. The result is his new book about “what religion forgets and politics hasn’t learned about serving the public good.”

As the drumbeat for arming the rebels in Syria continues in the U.S., there is growing evidence that the militant Lebanese Shi’a organisation Hezbollah is fighting for the regime.