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As the Senate moves this week to pass a very short-term extension of unemployment benefits, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert notes what few voices on

This should come as no surprise, though it’s certainly a sign that more hard times are ahead: Banks are moving forward with foreclosures now that voluntary

Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) wants to clarify that Gen. Stanley McChrystal believes he has enough additional troops, and implies that Defense Secretary Robert

Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who suffered an aneurysm Tuesday night while driving near Cleveland, has died this evening, according to the Associated

Just days after the Obama administration announced that it is investigating China’s clean energy trade policies, The New York Times is reporting that the

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If you think it’s a bad idea for bankers to run around deciding whether they find their customers morally objectionable or not, then it might be time to switch banks.

Twentieth-century economic history generated two great bogeymen: the Great Inflation and the Great Depression. The memory of both continues to haunt

Jake Tapper, the Twitter-addicted senior White House correspondent for ABC News, wrangles a frightening number of scoops and under-reported stories. He’s also,

The on-again, off-again immigration reform effort is apparently on again, with a new provision intended to regulate Americans’ access to the job market -- and

Here’s the top part of the packet FreedomWorks handed out this morning to participants in The People’s Surge, the effort directing a few hundred Tea Party

Buried in a profile of the controversial former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo in today’s Washington Post is the casual mention that the Justice Department

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) read the McChrystal strategy review before Bob Woodward put it on The Washington Post’s frontpage, and among the thing he’s tried to

Bloomberg reports that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has picked up seven super delegates today, including Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) who switched his endorsement

Amb. Michael Oren pointedly snubbed J Street when the pro-Israel/pro-peace/progressive American Jewish lobby group offered to let him speak at its first annual

If you watched a lot of television as a kid like I did, you are no doubt familiar with Schoolhouse Rock, the cartoons and songs that tried to explain the way

Even as the White House is on the hot seat over claims that it’s been too lax on mining safety, one coal-country lawmaker has already shifted focus, ripping

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is gunning for Colorado Freshman Representative Cory Gardner with a bold gas-station advertising campaign that highlights his votes in support of oil industry tax breaks and deregulation, on one side, and his votes to prune Medicare, on the other. Ads will appear atop gas pumps in the Fourth District, capturing constituents as they watch their price-of-purchase climb. The ad text underlines the contrast between individual taxpayers sweating out the economy and the mega-profiting non-tax-paying corporations like Chevron and Exxon that are hiking gas prices in a recession without fear of political response.

GUANTANAMO BAY -- While Col. Patrick Parrish dealt Omar Khadr’s lawyers a setback yesterday by ruling that the government will have four weeks to conduct its

St. Gianna Physician’s Guild, a group of Catholic physicians, has launched an online campaign asking Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama administration “to immediately withdraw all references to contraception and contraception counseling from the ‘Guidelines for Women’s Preventive Services’ under The Affordable Care Act, and to provide a conscience clause to protect the religious freedom and beliefs of Catholics.” # Catholic medical providers, insurers, etc. have been the biggest opponents to a recent decision by a federal health agency to require insurers to include contraception on a list of preventative medical services through the Affordable Care Act.