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In the wake of recent damning testimony and reports outlining the tactics used by insurance companies to bolster bottom lines, The New York Times today takes a

Progressive activist Adam Green confronts Griff Jenkins — a Fox News color reporter who’s often assigned to cover left-leaning events in a goofy manner.

From a paragraph deep in this New York Times piece based on talks with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: Aides said General

Huckabee is a Christian socialist. He’s got a good heart and all that, but he’s wrong on the important issues, said Richard Viguerie, a longtime conservative strategist. He’s coming at them from a Christian perspective, trying to do the humanitarian thing, and it comes back to bite him.

The message is clear: If you think adding $10 billion to the deficit is dangerous, wait till you see what happens when millions of unemployed folks slash their consumption (at best) and foreclose on their homes (at worst).

I hadn’t paid much attention to the shrinking role of James Dobson at Focus on the Family -- he’d been on the way out for a while -- but TPM’s follow-up with

As long as we’re talking about torture, check out this letter that Tom Ricks published from an Army National Guard lieutanant colonel to Charles Krauthammer

Justice may be blind, but it sure ain’t quick. Forty-six months after federal agents found $90,000 of aluminum-wrapped cash in his freezer, and thirty-seven

The Washington Post today reports on yet another challenge for the Obama administration: finding the documents that will reveal just who all those Guantanamo

Telecommuting has gained more market share than any other form of transportation in the last few years, with the trend likely to continue.

Maher Arar may not have been able to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal for redress after U.S. officials rendered him to Syria to be tortured.

The Michigan Messenger’s Eartha Jane Melzer reports that if it comes from Lake Huron, it might be: In its “2008 Michigan Family Fish Consumption Guide:

Jonathan Rauch -- one of the few libertarian/conservatives, like Bruce Bartlett and David Frum, who has remained more hopeful than partisan in the Obama era --

From Peter Baker’s New York Times Magazine overview of the Obama administration’s approach to terrorism: Most of those , of course, were in the moderate camp

Does President Obama really want to make this argument for why he’s flip-flopping on the release of the torture photographs: I want to emphasize that these

In a surprising move last year, the Environmental Protection Agency fired the chairwoman of a chemical review panel six months after the panel took place.

Here’s a bizarre observation from six-term GOP Rep. Bob Inglis (S.C.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, speaking to reporters today following a

In April, Ha’aretz’s Aluf Benn reported that the Obama administration was preparing sympathetic members of Congress for the prospect of a Hill-based effort by

A reversal from the Nashville, Tenn., event, which has battled back a lot of criticism of its organizers’ finances and its lack of media access. Media will be

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