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Less than two weeks after Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) became the first Senate Democrat to announce her opposition to the labor-friendly Employee Free Choice

Former New Mexico Republican Gov.

President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he plans to use an executive order to ease student loan debt for millions of Americans.

How did prison guards at Guantanamo overlook three men hanging from nooses in their cells for more than two hours, in what was supposed to be a super-high

The song and video of O.T.P. - One Term President by Wolverines has been making the rounds -- the fate of all eyebrow-raising conservative rap, I suppose.

Several companies integral to Iowa’s agricultural economy have been named as defendants in a lawsuit brought by three sugar producers who are upset by a new marketing pitch for high-fructose corn syrup that labels the product as “corn sugar.” Those companies named as defendants are Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM), Cargill Inc., Corn Products International Inc., Penford Products Co., Roquette America Inc., Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas Inc. and the companies marketing and lobbying organization, the Corn Refiners Association Inc.

The American Independent is in a period of transition. David Bennahum, CEO and founder of the American Independent News Network (AINN), our parent company,

After following a long road to completion, the GOP’s Pledge to America is finally being announced today in Sterling, Virginia, and almost everybody thinks

At the end of last week, the Obama administration reportedly told Senate Democrats to drop the $50 billion liquidation fund -- often referred to as a bailout

Well, it won’t be all doom and gloom here today. Consumer confidence -- an important bellwether of increasing household spending -- shot up last month. The

A progressive health care advocacy group released a new ad Thursday that questions the reaction of tea party members at a Florida presidential debate and wonders if the 2012 candidates will take a stand against such extremes. The ad, which is embedded below, mixes tea party rally, campaign and debate footage

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) just agreed to postpone committee votes on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and Deputy Attorney

A local news channel in Atlanta reports that three Teach for America instructors confessed to participating in the district-wide cheating scandal that involved

This just released from the NATO command in Afghanistan: Two International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopters were involved in what was believed to

As I reported yesterday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opted to invite Gen. David Petraeus to testify alongside Ambassador Karl Eikenberry this morning

A coalition of business leaders today called for passage of a series of proposals that would provide tax credits for the purchase and production of electric

Carter resigned this fall as Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs at the Pentagon. Carter provided the stock answer that he was leaving for personal and

The economy might still be suffering, but political advertising expenditures -- both by candidates, political parties, and outside groups -- are way up, reports

Tim Pawlenty told ThinkProgress on Saturday that shutting down the federal government is “an option I think Republicans have to consider.” It’s far different rhetoric than what the then-governor offered in 2005 when a budget standoff with the DFL led to the Minnesota’s first and only government shutdown. He said that the shutdown on his watch didn’t have a big impact on the state, but before it happened he warned it’d wreak “havoc” and be “unsettling and unfortunate and inconvenient and problematic” for thousands of Minnesotans. Further, a strategy he now sees as an option for the GOP he characterized as a “cynical political strategy” by the DFL in 2005 — and one that would have effects “far in the future.” Pawlenty spoke with ThinkProgress at the Tea Party Patriots Policy Summit in Arizona on Saturday.

Here’s a glimpse of what it’s like inside a North Korean labor camp -- of the sort that American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee will have to endure now

The bailout bill’s provision capping pay for executives of financially troubled companies is full of loopholes. Legal and political experts say it does little to limit compensation -- even for companies that benefit handsomely from the taxpayers’ generosity.

Richard Allen Smith, Afghan war veteran and vice chairman of national soldier and veteran advocacy organization VoteVets , on Thursday hand delivered a petition with more than 9,000 signatures asking Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler to drop the lawsuit he filed seeking to prevent counties in the state from mailing ballots to inactive voters, including to soldiers serving away from home.

The CIA said techniques like sleep deprivation worked better when a detainee’s resistance was weakened from hunger.