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Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), in an interview with The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein, says that the government should ban synthetic financial products -- which

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement slates more people for deportation, a new analysis from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse

The Washington Post opinion columnist Ruth Marcus has a biting critique today of how Washington’s policy makers -- both Democrats and Republicans; both in the

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has decided to delay a procedural vote on a bill to encourage the development of electric and natural gas

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said Wednesday that the city may run out of cash by February and he may be interested in serving as Emergency Manager if the governor decides to appoint one. Public Act 4, enacted in March, allows the governor to appoint Emergency Managers with power to break labor contracts, dismiss elected officials, and rearrange municipalities. In a conversation with the Detroit News Bing said that he would seriously consider taking the job if the governor asked him to become Emergency Manager

The Awake the State Summit logo (Pic via summit.awakethestate.com) The progressive coalition Awake the State will join Occupy Orlando protesters on Nov. 1 in an event focusing on voting rights in the state.

In an interview with BNA (subscription required), campaign finance reformer Fred Wertheimer of Democracy 21 went on the offensive against the FEC’s new

Given that the entire GOP congressional leadership just loudly bleated that they know less about FBI procedure than the average moviegoer, maybe Newt Gingrich

It has become recession-era gospel: Employers are performing more credit checks to screen out job applicants -- an unfair and sometimes banned practice, and one

In a ruling that slid in quietly under the news radar, a federal court of appeals ruled late last Friday that the government can lawfully use immigration

Chris Cillizza and Paul Kane report that the junior senator from Nevada, the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, will admit that he had an

Via The Washington Post, the office of Sen. Tom Coburn yesterday denied that the Oklahoma Republican told housemate Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) to pay millions of

Jeffrey Kaye at Truthout has a good piece today on the suicide -- or murder? -- of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi in

In reaction to the Obama administration’s Guantanamo Bay task force recommending that about 50 detainees at Guantanamo be indefinitely detained without trial,

United States firearms officials will likely make changes to their efforts to stop firearms from reaching Mexican drug cartels after criticism from a Justice

The 3.6 percent increase in Social Security benefits taking effect next year will have a big impact on Iowa’s seniors, say U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Cumming) and the head of AARP Iowa.

Michigan State University researchers have developed a brand new version of the internal combustion engine they say could revolutionize the hybrid vehicle.

Here in Washington, D.C., public transportation’s pretty good -- you can get basically anywhere you need to go by Metro or bus. But the vast majority of the