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Twenty-seven days, four votes and a long lesson in tedium later, the upper chamber has passed legislation extending unemployment benefits by at least 14 weeks

Forget auditing the Fed or breaking up the banks. Before senators address those proposed amendments to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform

On ABC’s This Week on Sunday, both Paul Krugman and Robert Reich offered far more pessimistic views of the economy than the rosier outlook put forth by

The Washington Post’s resident ’Fact Checker’ Glenn Kessler has accused Herman Cain of spouting historical fiction about the origins of birth control in the

The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted 13-6 to endorse Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation, sending her on to the full Senate for further

After a five-day standoff, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) conceded defeat, and the Senate last night approved a short term measure extending COBRA benefits, funding

Via Andrew Sullivan, who insightfully notes that we’re the only country whose prestige is on the rise in the eyes of our international fellows.

Seated across the table from the United States and its allies, the Iranian regime is considering an ambitious diplomatic offer to ship its uranium out of the country.

Some of the least convincing score-settling in Courage and Consequences comes when Karl Rove attempts to rebut the charge that he politicized the appointment

Today, more than 300 economists and policy experts released a letter warning that the still-fragile economic recovery will be undercut by austerity economics

Echoing sentiments expressed to the Colorado Independent by U.S. House Leader Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., more than 49 percent of the shareholders of an oil and gas company in the Permian Basin of West Texas recently asked for more transparency in hydraulic fracturing operations. Nancy Pelosi Pelosi last week told the Independent that oil and gas operators should want to publicly disclose all the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” as protection against future litigation.

After State Department spokesperson Ian Kelly told reporters yesterday that an interagency process led by the National Counterterrorism Center was responsible

As to my can-there-be-a-decent-right question about torture, Philip Zelikow, the counselor to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the executive

We weren’t the only folks curious about the morning’s claim from Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) that the GOP’s health reform bill covers more uninsured Americans

The University of Phoenix logo (Pic via 2.bp.blogspot.com) Harper’s Magazine has unveiled a lengthy piece on the University of Phoenix, one of a host of for-profit colleges that is currently being investigated in the state of Florida and across the country. The piece, which is worth reading in full, explores the falsities in the schools’ recruitment practices, along with their embarrassingly low graduation rates and the high debt taken on by their students.

Foreclosures jumped again in April, setting another record and providing more evidence that the housing crisis shows little sign of slowing down. RealtyTrac,

Seeking to stop the Pentagon from using taxpayer funds to sponsor NASCAR — and earning a death threat along the way — Rep. Betty McCollum sponsored an amendment to ban such funding.

The Associated Press releases a brutal report on Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) and his use of state resources. The most damaging items: $1,265 for a flight from

While most of us were still reading or recovering from the latest batch of gruesome torture memos released by the Justice Department last week, bmaz at

Via Roll Call, here’s Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) telling reporters Wednesday that President Obama’s looming heath reform address to Congress

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