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The recession is getting worse, with the jobless count steadily rising and credit markets still far from operating smoothly. A big part of the problem is that government bailouts are encouraging banks to mask the extent of their balance-sheet problems. It’s time for the banks to come clean if the economy is going to restart.

When it comes to health care, at least, following the polls can be tricky. Take this latest one Sam Stein reports on for The Huffington Post, showing that 77

Talk about getting a second bite of the apple. I’ve written before about the problem with the Department of Justice jumping in to defend a lawsuit charging that

Fourteen months after being tossed aside for Michael Steele, former RNC Chairman Mike Duncan is at the helm of American Crossroads, a group aiming to raise $52

I’m thrilled and proud to introduce the newest member of the TWI team, Annie Lowrey. Annie is wrapping up her illustrious stint as an assistant editor at

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Democrats and liberals can claim some significant victories in Ohio, Mississippi and elsewhere after the Nov. 8 elections, political watchers say, but the message overall was a mixed one as Republicans saw some victories as well

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Minnesota Democrats introduced a bill on Monday that would repeal the state’s Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits same-sex couples from benefiting from the rights and responsibilities of marriage. The bill, the Marriage and Family Protection Act , was offered just as heated debate at the Capitol continues over a proposed constitutional amendment that would write a ban on gay marriage into the state constitution. “Marriage is a legal institution recognized by the state to promote stable relationships and to protect people in those relationships and their children,” the bill states

In the wake of the Great Depression, a Congressional panel known as the Pecora Commission investigated Wall Street’s actions and set the stage for financial

New unemployment claims this week dropped to 409,000 according to the latest Department of Labor report , but that’s still too high to allow any serious progress in reducing the unemployment rate. The four-week average of 439,000 is the highest since November of last year.

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum , of Pennsylvania, will seek the White House in 2012, he announced this morning on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Perhaps channeling 2008 Hillary Clinton in Des Moines, Santorum said, “We’re going to be in this race and we’re in it to win it,” before launching into extensive criticism of President Barack Obama on foreign policy.

Megan pointed this out more than a week ago, but today the editorialists at The New York Times are also highlighting the central flaw of the updated foreclosure

This statement just came out from President Obama: Today marks the eleventh Anniversary of the terrorist attacks against the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya

CNN has done the hard work of parsing the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill, and has found that the final version calls for a whopping 68 studies --

Erick Erickson (whom, full disclosure, I’d asked about the story earlier today) posts a scorching attack on next month’s Tea Party Convention in Nashville,

A new Greenpeace report finds that the Koch Brothers, via their PAC, contributed $2.51 million since the beginning of the 2006 election cycle to lawmakers’

A report by the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor found a number of problems with the state Pollution Control Agency’s accounting systems, including neglecting to scrub banking data that auditors said could be used to commit fraud.

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The national oil spill commission has made headlines last week for its reports that heavily criticized the Obama administration for its response to the Gulf oil