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The on-again, off-again immigration reform effort is apparently on again, with a new provision intended to regulate Americans’ access to the job market -- and

Here’s the top part of the packet FreedomWorks handed out this morning to participants in The People’s Surge, the effort directing a few hundred Tea Party

Twentieth-century economic history generated two great bogeymen: the Great Inflation and the Great Depression. The memory of both continues to haunt

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) read the McChrystal strategy review before Bob Woodward put it on The Washington Post’s frontpage, and among the thing he’s tried to

Buried in a profile of the controversial former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo in today’s Washington Post is the casual mention that the Justice Department

If you think it’s a bad idea for bankers to run around deciding whether they find their customers morally objectionable or not, then it might be time to switch banks.

If you watched a lot of television as a kid like I did, you are no doubt familiar with Schoolhouse Rock, the cartoons and songs that tried to explain the way

Amb. Michael Oren pointedly snubbed J Street when the pro-Israel/pro-peace/progressive American Jewish lobby group offered to let him speak at its first annual

Even as the White House is on the hot seat over claims that it’s been too lax on mining safety, one coal-country lawmaker has already shifted focus, ripping

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is gunning for Colorado Freshman Representative Cory Gardner with a bold gas-station advertising campaign that highlights his votes in support of oil industry tax breaks and deregulation, on one side, and his votes to prune Medicare, on the other. Ads will appear atop gas pumps in the Fourth District, capturing constituents as they watch their price-of-purchase climb. The ad text underlines the contrast between individual taxpayers sweating out the economy and the mega-profiting non-tax-paying corporations like Chevron and Exxon that are hiking gas prices in a recession without fear of political response.

GUANTANAMO BAY -- While Col. Patrick Parrish dealt Omar Khadr’s lawyers a setback yesterday by ruling that the government will have four weeks to conduct its

St. Gianna Physician’s Guild, a group of Catholic physicians, has launched an online campaign asking Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama administration “to immediately withdraw all references to contraception and contraception counseling from the ‘Guidelines for Women’s Preventive Services’ under The Affordable Care Act, and to provide a conscience clause to protect the religious freedom and beliefs of Catholics.” # Catholic medical providers, insurers, etc. have been the biggest opponents to a recent decision by a federal health agency to require insurers to include contraception on a list of preventative medical services through the Affordable Care Act.

As the Senate moves this week to pass a very short-term extension of unemployment benefits, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert notes what few voices on

The nonpartisan money-in-politics-tracking Website, OpenSecrets.org, has an eye-opening roundup of the money spent in support or opposition the Employee Free

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.--For several months now, people have pounded the patriotism of presumed Democratic candidate, Sen. Barack Obama. The basis for this has always

A leading legal scholar says controversial anti-bullying legislation passed last week in the Michigan Senate is vague, confusing and will do little to address the problem of bullying. “The bill does not prohibit bullying

As President Obama reconsiders some of the assumptions of the counterinsurgency strategy he announced in March for Afghanistan and Pakistan, a conference featuring many of the luminaries of the counterinsurgency community discussed both the challenges inherent in counterinsurgency, including some lessons yet to be applied in Afghanistan.

All eyes are on Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) as she decides to sign or veto Senate bill 1070. Her position on this bill could determine her re-election

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) will likely offer the first amendment to Sen. Chris Dodd’s financial regulatory reform bill which is now on the floor and in the

Steve Aftergood at Secrecy News reports on a weird episode: Attorney General Michael Mukasey reacted pretty strongly to a bill sponsored by Sen. Russ Feingold

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as