mark udall

U.S. intelligence findings are not always accurate, or worth taking at immediate face value, says Cal Thomas.

Unlike their older compatriots, young Republicans aren't squeamish about birth control.

The question of whether the CIA operatives who used torture techniques should be punished is unlikely to be addressed.

Let's have more partisanship about ideas and less about process.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein didn't mind when the intelligence community was violating the privacy of ordinary people.

Barbara Mikulski: We must review and reform the National Security Agency (NSA), but we cannot reject the mission of the NSA, nor the men and women who work there.

President Obama proposed new safeguards for the government's vast surveillance of communications in the U.S. and abroad, adding additional judicial review and disclosure requirements, but largely leaving in place programs that he said were needed to "remain vigilant in the face of threats."

The government's power to secretly collect millions of phone records from telecom companies without their customers' knowledge suggests the laws protecting privacy are a lot less robust that most people think

Credit unions: Financial cooperatives in Maryland and elsewhere need the authority to lend more money