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The Minnesota Independent reports that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) has introduced a bill that would allow Election Day registration for federal elections

When the Obama administration announced its plan earlier this month to transfer military commissions-bound Guantanamo detainees to the Thomson Correctional

So writes The New York Times, reporting today that the nation’s drug makers are prepping to pay more, under the Democrats’ final health reform bill, than the

A trio of professional snow shredders are charging the biggest hill in Washington, D.C., this week. Their message: Congress is getting too radical on Capitol Hill.

The first floor of Florida’s Capitol was flooded with hundreds of protestors delivering pink slips to Gov. Rick Scott today. # They chanted: “Pink slip Rick!” “Fire Tricky Ricky!” “Where are the jobs?” # Capitol police closed the door to the governor’s office, saying the commotion was making it difficult for employees inside to concentrate

Lisa Lerer has the scoop: the athletics company will relinquish its spot on the board of directors at the Chamber of Commerce to protest the business lobby’s

Interfaith Alliance of Iowa officials are disappointed in a lack of response from Gov. Terry Branstad concerning a desired discussion with state faith leaders concerning Texas Gov. Rick Perry ‘s day of prayer for the nation, which Branstad was invited to

This should sound familiar: Growing losses on Federal Housing Administration-backed mortgage loans are prompting fears the agency will be next in line for

The CIA has reportedly just confirmed -- conveniently late on a Friday afternoon -- that 12 of the videotapes it destroyed while its interrogation methods were

A Gallup poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents released Tuesday found that Rep. Michele Bachmann bests Tim Pawlenty in name recognition and that the congresswoman has a much higher “positive intensity” than the former Minnesota governor.

Last week’s two drone strikes in Afghanistan rattled journalists. Didn’t Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, sharply

The path from conservative college journalism to D.C. influence is reliable.

Officially, today marks Armenian Remembrance Day, set aside to honor the roughly 1.5 million Armenians killed at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915. But in

I’ve put in calls to the lawyers listed in official documents for the Committee for Truth in Politics, the organization running ads that portray financial

Keying off a statistic cited by the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Wall Street Journal editorial board recently issued a glowing opinion

The vice president is impressed with the woman he considers a virtual female clone of himself.

More than two centuries after America’s first military skirmish, gay and lesbian Americans can now serve openly in the military. President Obama today announced that the military was finally ready to implement a policy of openly welcoming people of all sexual oreintations. From The Washington Post: The Obama administration announced Friday that the military had made all necessary preparations to allow gays to serve openly in the armed forces, setting the stage for the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in 60 days

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department today announced that it had negotiated a settlement with a major pipeline company to pay $41

Karen Tumlin, the managing attorney at the National Immigration Law Center, told the American Independent that HB 56, the Alabama immigration law, “hearkens back to the days of Jim Crow.

A double-take-inducing item from Time’s report on Palin’s book: In addition to the trade edition, there will also be a special version for the Christian

Bethany Haley, a spokeswoman for the Republican congressman from Arizona, expands on the comments Franks made about President Obama’s citizenship at a town hall

Last week, I wrote a story on nascent movements to organize the unemployed, a group already connected via enormous online networks and politically fired-up

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