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With just over 14 months remaining before the Iowa Caucus, National Journal’s The Hotline has released its Presidential Power Rankings, assessing the viability

New York schools were strongly discouraged in a memo Monday from asking for information related to students’ immigration status during the enrollment process, a

Minnesota Independent reporter Sam Lane appeared on Your Call radio in San Francisco on July 8. Aired on KALW Public Radio in San Francisco, Your Call hosts a weekly Media Roundtable during which journalists comment on and discuss the coverage of some of the world’s biggest stories. Lane discussed Minnesota’s government shutdown as well as the controversy surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney worries that the U.S. troop withdrawal from urban Iraqi areas might waste all the tremendous sacrifice that has gotten us to

Jim Geraghty reports that Republicans are starting to worry about the race for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-N.Y.) old House seat, a chunk of upstate New York

Private employers added just 1,420 jobs per state in July -- not nearly enough to make up for job losses in the government, 50,000 of which were

Politico has a long article today on Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who runs the Republican Governors Association (RGA), and how he is, well, powerful. The

RNC chair candidate Michael Steele’s vocal opposition to treatment of African American voters by the GOP represents both experience and frustration.

A Navy veteran and full-time student at the University of Central Florida, along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, has filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida over a law requiring temporary assistance recipients to take a drug test before receiving benefits. Luis Lebron, a 35-year-old Orlando resident and single father, applied for temporary assistance in July 2011 to support his 4-year-old son

Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) office passes on a memo titled No-Mentum, making the argument that Democrats are a total of 7 votes down. Cutting against the

The American Lung Association is strongly criticizing Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette for suing the federal government to prevent the implementation of new clean air regulations governing power plant emissions. In a press release the group said: “The decision by Attorney General Bill Schuette and his counterparts in other states to stand up for polluters and to ignore the health of Michigan’s children is quite shocking,” said Peter Iwanowicz, assistant vice president for the American Lung Association

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala, will host a hearing on a set of federally mandated water pollution rules tomorrow in Orlando. The hearing will examine the economic impact the rules could have on certain industries — like utilities, agriculture and construction. The closed hearing has earned the ire of environmental groups, and a look at the list of those invited to speak reveals why

Well, not no one, but only a quarter of people polled by Rasmussen Reports could correctly identify what cap-and-trade legislation pertained to. Given a

The Republican majority on the state House Judiciary committee voted Thursday to support House Bill 241 , which would render useless local wage theft ordinances that help workers who have been stiffed of their earned wages by dishonest employers. # A statewide construction business coalition , the National Federation for Independent Businesses and the Florida Retail Federation (the latter of which has legally challenged the constitutionality of Miami-Dade County’s wage theft ordinance) support the bill, filed by Rep. Tom Goodson, R-Titusville.

House Democrats, who’d hoped to build momentum for health reform by passing a bill before the August vacation, hit a wall in the form of conservative-leaning

Nicholas Forte has spent the last year with an array of health issues. Headaches

In an effort to influence the debate over Ohio’s union-busting legislation, Senate Bill 5, that voters appear ready to repeal on Nov. 8, conservative activist

The Iowa House will begin formal debate on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, civil unions and other domestic partnerships at 11 a.m. Tuesday, five hours earlier than originally scheduled. The change was made by Republican leadership, who said an impending winter storm set to hit the Midwest was the motivating factor

With the 2010 census data now on record it’s time for the state to redraw its electoral districts, a process that several Michigan groups believe should be a more transparent process. Last Wednesday several groups testified in front of the Senate Redistricting Committee to voice their concerns about the changing political boundaries and where the voice of Michigan citizens fit into the picture. Jocelyn Benson was first in line to speak before the committee.

So it’s looking like Hamid Karzai stole an election. What now? One option, apparently favored by the United States, is to try and persuade robbed rival Abdullah

GOP Senate candidate Adam Hasner (right), in a 2009 photo (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) U.S.

Back in the 1990s, companies like eTrade and the big banks democratized stock investing: Anyone, anywhere could purchase an index fund for a long-term

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