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Seven months ago, I joined The Washington Independent, never having worked for a web-only publication and never having done policy reporting at Internet

Next week, the Treasury Department is holding a conference on the future of housing finance as Washington gears up to reform the government-sponsored

A new report (PDF) from the National Center on Education and the Economy has concluded the U.S. is not proactive enough in adopting successful education models

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines, traveled with President Obama aboard Air Force One to Tucson to see her friend and colleague Rep

Rep. Keith Ellison is among 74 members of Congress who called on United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Friday to recuse himself from hearing any cases that have to do with health care reform after revelations that Thomas’ wife makes a living from organizations that oppose the implementation of health care reform. Virginia Thomas received nearly $700,000 from the Heritage Foundation between 2003 and 2007 — and that income was not disclosed on Justice Thomas’ financial disclosure forms as required by law

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Should Gov. Sarah Palin be nervous about Steve Branchflower’s Troopergate report? I just spoke with an Anchorage lawyer who has known

The Associated Press is reporting that the FBI is searching the homes of anti-war activists during terrorism raids: The home of Minneapolis anti-war activists

Since Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his plans to host a prayer and fasting event earlier this summer — one that would be primarily sponsored by an extremist

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who until three weeks ago was one of three senators working on comprehensive climate legislation, offered a noncommittal response

FreedomWorks is planning a press conference Wednesday at the Pennsylvania State Capitol building in Harrisburg to put pressure on lawmakers who have yet to

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been hammered for using campaign funds to promote personal projects, but the real scandal may be the finance industry

Nevermind that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is on the record with his intent not to seek the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2012

President Obama is speaking this morning at the Brookings Institution to outline his strategy for tackling the employment crisis. Before he spoke a word,

Scientists have come to accept the necessity of researching this worst-case approach to addressing the climate crisis -- and so have some conservatives, creating what one scientist called an alliance of strange bedfellows.

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Supporters of a family and traditional values center at Texas A&M University plan to continue battling to pass a bill in the student senate that supports

On the same day that former Minerals Management Service chief Elizabeth Birnbaum is slated to testify before the national oil spill commission, The Washington