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Is there an echo in here? In The New York Times today, op-ed columnist David Brooks blasts the Democrats’ House-passed stimulus package with the charge that

Today, a poll from Gallup shows where the uptick in consumer spending is coming from: the wealthy, and the wealthy only. Americans earning more than $90,000 a

A lawyer assisting the dozens of Occupy Des Moines demonstrators arrested earlier this month on charges of trespassing on State Capitol grounds says Iowa State Patrol officers showed a “level of brutality … I hadn’t seen in the over 20 years I’d been here.” Sally Frank, a professor at the Drake University Law School, said the officers that arrested the demonstrators used pepper spray, cuffed the demonstrators too tightly and dragged them away. The tight cuffing has left some of the demonstrators with numbness, she said, and one of the people arrested had his arm injured by the officers. “The Des Moines Police Department doesn’t do that and knows how to deal with protesters and do it professionally and appropriately,” Frank said

An analysis of Obama’s proposed surtax on millionaires to fund his job program will be paid by an infinitesimally small percentage of American taxpayers, and

Well, he doesn’t get to go free, but Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri -- the last remaining enemy combatant who was picked up and held for the past six years without

While President Obama may choose to end the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling a month early, it doesn’t look like we’ll see any new drilling until

The Obama administration on Tuesday outlined a new set of proposed rules for automobile fuel efficiency and emissions. The new rules follow an announcement in

What could have been an effective trigger to begin dismantling Roe v. Wade died last week in Louisiana after the state House voted 65-30 to recommit a bill that

Despite Republican objections, congressional Democrats did not include reforms of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or of the broader mortgage market in the

While the government’s use of private security contractors has garnered no end of criticism, the highest-profile blunders and abuses have come from companies that work not for the Pentagon, but for the State Department.

With Congress back in session after the July 4 holiday, the legislative schedule in the Senate is extremely cramped. There’s the financial regulatory reform

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) today issued not one but two press releases responding to the latest batch of Bush-era Office of Legal

No counterinsurgency leadership conference would be complete without the U.S. military’s chief theorist-practitioner of counterinsurgency, Army Gen. David

Eric Kleefeld points to a new post from Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), cheering on disruptions of Democratic town halls. Embedded in that post is an interesting

In response to guidance from the Michigan Department of Community Health, the Macomb County Health Department has changed the client acknowledgment forms they use — but some advocates say they haven’t gone far enough yet. Dr

Tim Griffin, a controversial figure in the U.S attorney firing scandal, is a source of new optimism among Bush-era Republicans.

In a shift of power that could prove vital to the Obama administration’s energy-policy successes, House Democrats Thursday morning voted to oust Rep. John

Via Josh Marshall, Mark Mazzetti reports for The New York Times that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) choice for CIA director, Steve Kappes, might remain

On the heels of the Mullah Baradar arrest, Sami Yousafzai and Mark Hosenball report that the Taliban’s shadow governor in Kunduz, Mullah Abdul Salam, has been