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Today’s the big day for Arizona immigration law SB 1070: The Ninth Circuit Court of appeals will hear debate over the law today, with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer

Credit card companies might be unpopular, and reform legislation might be inevitable. But, as Democratic leaders have learned this month, that doesn’t mean

The tradition of wait, what did they ask? questions in Fox News polls continues with this one from the network’s Oct. 29 survey. I tried to

So President Bush took on the enormous task of explaining the financial crisis to Americans in simple, clear terms last night - and singled out Fannie Mae and

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) promised last week that he would try to pass the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow some undocumented young people to

The Natural Resources Defense Council says that last weekend’s leak of 42,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River, along with more than 800,000 gallons spilled into the Kalamazoo River last year and a rash of pipeline leaks along the Keystone I pipeline, should convince the State Department to nix the Keystone XL pipeline. As we saw from the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf, toxins in the oil can take a lethal toll on aquatic life of all kinds. Exposure to these toxins can also cause genetic damage, liver disease, cancer and harm to reproductive and immune systems

Speaking at the Center for a New American Security’s annual Washington policy conference, Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy (and CNAS

This afternoon, health advocates and Medicaid recipients are protesting the state’s plan to privatize Medicaid in front of WellCare’s corporate headquarters in Tampa. WellCare is one of the insurance companies that could receive Medicaid recipients and taxpayer funds if the federal government approves Florida’s plans. The protest is being led by Florida PIRG , a public interest group in the state that also released a report (.pdf) today that criticizes the state’s plans to expand the Medicaid Reform Pilot statewide.

So now that Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is the de facto Republican candidate in NY-23, what happens? Local Republican parties in the district,

Former Gov. Blagojevich (D-Ill.) lost everything this year. Blagojevich stands accused of trying to sell the appointment to replace Barack Obama in the

The eighty-eight applicants to officially declare their interest for Jerome Block Jr.’s vacated District 3 commissioner of the Public Regulation Commission, seat include: an American Telepsychiatrists sales representative, the owner of a Santa Fe optical store, a substitute teacher, a musician, a rancher, a stay-at-home dad, a solar-power products designer, a graphic designer of a free monthly newspaper, an insurance agent, a resort director and an equipment maintenance technician at Intel. Fred Nathan and Jason Espinoza, directors at Think New Mexico, a think tank that released an influential assessment of the PRC one week ago, say they have never heard of most of the candidates.

As the presidential campaign draws to a close, election reformers, best known for battling GOP-led vote suppression efforts, are tuning out any talk of a Sen.

ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- Outside of the Collingwood Library and Museum, a stately home a few miles down the highway from Washington, D.C. -- and a few miles north of

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, on the McCain campaign trail, reports that the strangest thing about Sen. John McCain’s rally in Columbus, Ohio, was California

Though Exxon Mobil initially insisted that the pipeline that ruptured and spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River this month carried only low sulfur crude from Wyoming, the company has now acknowledged that the pipeline is used to transport tar sands crude from Alberta. Oil from the Canadian tar sands is produced by melting asphalt-like deposits and must be diluted with lightweight and volatile chemicals in order to flow through pipelines. Tar sands oil is known to be more corrosive that other types of crude and it contains more heavy metals

From the DCCC’s Jennifer Crider, blasting the NRCC for tweeting a Downfall parody video of Adolf Hitler making common cause with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

As the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation takes up pipeline safety legislation today, watchdog groups say that the measure contains good

In this fourth edition of The Iowa Independent’s 2012 Presidential Power Rankings, the panelists give nods to their widest field of potential candidates thus far, spreading their predictions between 13 individuals. Most also see 2012 shaping up as an outsiders-versus-establishment gambit, with the establishment winning if the grassroots are fractured. Former Arkansas Gov

Just out of the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) comes news that the cost of the health reform bill the Senate Finance Committee chairman is working on has

Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers have reached an agreement on a new contract that includes significant signing bonuses and more jobs for autoworkers.

So when the Obama administration announced on Friday that it was going to come up with benchmarks to judge the success or failure of its Af-Pak strategy but was

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