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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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

A new report by the National Employment Law Project says that the bankruptcy of Michigan’s unemployment insurance fund can be blamed on a series of ill-advised tax breaks given to employers starting in the 1990s. Noting that the state has borrowed $3.2 billion from the federal government to keep the unemployment insurance fund solvent over the last few years and that the state must make a $117 million payment on those loans by the end of September, the report says: Michigan’s most recent round of benefit cutting began in March 2011, when Michigan lawmakers enacted legislation to reduce UI benefits by six weeks (from a maximum of 26 weeks to 20 weeks for a regular state claim). This change will take effect for new UI claims filed after January 15, 2012.

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.

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

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

The conventional political wisdom says that the entry of Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, into the presidential race is bad news for former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, since the two will compete for similar voters in the Republican primary. However, a former Giuliani speechwriter and the staffers at High Times , the magazine devoted to marijuana, both agree that Johnson is the better choice between the two longshot libertarian Republicans.

Here are some stark -- if not entirely surprising -- numbers from the latest Rasmussen Reports poll of the 2010 Arizona gubernatorial race. Out of four

The news that Mohammed Jawad plans to sue the U.S. government for his unlawful detention and torture raises the question of whether he can get beyond the

Who said cronyism was dead? Delaware’s governor today tapped a long-time adviser to Joe Biden to fill the Senate seat being vacated by the vice