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Marcy Wheeler at Firedoglake has an interesting take today on the most recent summary of classified documents that the government turned over to the American

Despite relatively good news on revenue coming into the state’s general fund, a spokesman for Gov. Terry Branstad says the administration’s goals of cutting the cost of government by 15 percent won’t change. But Democratic leaders say recent budget data should change the budget discussion in the Iowa Legislature.

Recent Supreme Court rulings require cases pass a new plausible test to be heard in court.

Of the states which have passed immigration laws modeled after Arizona’s S.B. 1070, South Carolina is the most important in the GOP presidential primary

Following the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, independent groups are largely playing the role once occupied by the party committees. The balance of power is likely to shift even further in the future.

As the planet heats up, forests die. Pine beetles –formerly killed during harsh winters, thrive, turning much of Colorado a dirty brown. As forest die, they trap less carbon dioxide, causing the earth to get warmer still.

Even with no support from Republicans, Democrats hope to vote for a jobs bill as early as Monday. Facing low poll numbers, Harry Reid pumps cash into his

Senator Mark Udall today sent House Speaker John Boehner a letter urging him to allow the government to be shut down. In addition to Udall, 15 other senators–including Michael Bennet –signed the letter.

In response to open records requests, the state of Alaska has finally released 24,199 pages of email correspondence sent and received by Sarah Palin during her

On Friday, shortly after legislation essentially banning medical marijuana in Montana took effect, a judge said ‘not so fast’ and signed an order temporarily stopping some parts of the law from being enacted. Medical marijuana proponents have vowed a fight in a state where well over 60 percent of voters approved legalizing medical marijuana.

There are lots of things for Defense Secretary Bob Gates to tell the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning during his first round of testimony as

Whatever’s happening with the Baradar capture, President Obama convenes his national security team today for what I think is the first all-hands meeting on

As a weird new wrinkle of the exploding mortgage crisis, the flailing housing market in California was tied to a 276 percent increase in West Nile virus cases, according to a scientific journal.

In the wake of news that a federally funded reproductive health database was programmed earlier this year to ignore searches containing the word abortion,

Ohio voters dealt a withering blow to Governor John Kasich as 82 of 88 counties voted to repeal his signature legislation, an anti-collective-bargaining bill,

In the wake of a controversial donation to MN Forward that riled LGBT activists and sparked boycotts cross-country, Target has changed its process for making corporate independent expenditures. The retail giant will now run its political donations through a policy committee that would determine if the donations “advance issues that are important to our business.” But will the change be enough for LGBT community members still hurt by Target’s 2010 donations? In July, Target gave $150,000 to MN Forward , an independent expenditure campaign that produced and distributed ads in support of Republican Tom Emmer, a gubernatorial candidate who opposed marriage for same-sex couples

David C. Gompert, a former RAND Corporation vice president and longtime nonpartisan State and National Security Council official (Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the

A new law that was passed on the last day of Alabama’s legislative session may intensify the effects of the immigration law on immigrant and Hispanic tenants.

58 percent of New Mexico teachers are white, despite minorities constituting an overwhelming majority of the state’s student body. The findings come out of a set of reports published by a Washington, D.C. think tank that examined the dearth of minority teachers in states having a student body less than 50 percent white

Derivatives -- traded contracts whose price is derived from something else, like a stock, commodity, or interest rate -- are the biggest remaining battleground

Few would argue that, if the Newsweek report is true, Eric Holder is unqualified for the post of attorney general in the Obama administration. After all, Holder

Earlier this morning, President Obama announced a set of criteria for states to opt out of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law following a long period

The Associated Press reports: Counterterrorism officials have moved the names of dozens of people onto the terror watch list and the no-fly list after