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Washington Post senior correspondent Thomas Ricks says the Iraq war is likely to last at least another five to 10 years. He has written a new book about General David Petraeus and the Iraq war called The Gamble.

165 million taxpayer dollars are going to the same employees at AIG who were responsible for its downfall. A new Gallup poll shows that three-quarters of Americans want the government to block or retrieve that money. Are you, your friends and your colleagues angry?

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson resigned yesterday, citing "personal and family matters." But his departure comes amid growing allegations of influence peddling. Ann Lott, of the Dallas Housing Authority, and Bruce Katz, of the Brookings Institution, discuss the allegations against Jackson.

How "average" or "American" is your state? The Associated Press has produced an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data that ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia according to how closely they resemble the country's demographics.

The war in Iraq has been President Bush's war, but Bob Woodward's new book charges that the commander in chief has maintained "an odd detachment from its management."

In his new book, Torture Team, international lawyer Philippe Sands argues that the Bush administration's interrogation policy constitutes a war crime.

Sixty-eight percent of all web searches take place on Google.com. But as journalist Randall Stross found when researching his new book, Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know, the company's business extends well beyond basic web searches.

In her new book, Animals Make Us Human, Temple Grandin examines common notions of animal happiness and concludes that dogs, cats, horses, cows and zoo animals — among other creatures — possess an emotional system akin to that of humans.

Jack Daniel didn’t create that distinct method for distilling Tennessee Whiskey.

We’re coming off the hottest summer ever recorded, which many global climate authorities say could lead to our warmest year ever measured on record.