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Organized labor and collective bargaining rights may be under attack by conservative lawmakers in Michigan, Wisconsin and many other states, but Mary Kay Henry, the president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), sees opportunity in the unprecedented troubles. Henry — who was the first woman selected to lead the 2.2 million member union — spoke with Michigan Messenger Saturday at the Michigan Summit following her keynote speech at the event, during which she focused on the need to build larger coalitions between labor and other progressive organizations.

Congress.org reported earlier this week that U.S. House Republicans are once again planning to meddle with the laws mandated by the District of Columbia’s own

Mere weeks after the Arkansas Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex adoption, the battle over two-parent adoptions is heating up in Michigan as advocates for youth in the foster care system say that thousands of children are being denied permanent homes. Under a 1935 law, only one person in state government can sign off on every adoption in the state, causing a two month delay reports the Detroit News.

Until his pastor’s most incendiary sound bites re-circulated on the web, Sen. Barack Obama had managed to be the “post-racial,” “post-partisan”

Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kans.), fresh off the Great White Hope controversy of last week, can be seen in this video talking down a woman named Elizabeth Smith

As far as I’m aware, this is a first: A suicide bomber attacked a suspected nuclear-weapons site Friday in Pakistan, raising fears about the security of the

This is her third Senate race in five years. As O’Donnell’s manager, I found out she was living on campaign donations, one former O’Donnell staffer charged.

After months of whining, a resignation letter delivered on the op-ed page of The New York Times and warnings of a massive corporate brain drain, only 16

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A background briefing for defense experts last week reveals that plans for the new units are still in the works.

Sen. Barack Obama’s emphatic denunciation of his former pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., for a series of comments the reverend made during a sort of media

David Espo of the Association Press says that the part of President Obama’s jobs bill that includes another extension of federal unemployment benefits is likely to pass the U.S.

Who said telecom immunity? With the economy in the tank and Washington distracted by gazillion-dollar industry bailouts, it seems like forever since that

For a domestic audience, President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is arguably awkward. Concern-troll Mickey Kaus is already editorializing that he should turn it

As expected, President Obama this morning signed into law the Senate’s package of health care reforms, a number of which will go into effect this

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on July 13, 2009. The explosive inspectors general

One by one, the powerful Democrats of coal country are calling for an investigation into yesterday’s explosion that killed at least 25 coal miners in Raleigh

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) is scheduled to announce his retirement today, according to multiple media outlets. His decision complicates Democratic efforts to

Following up on my item earlier today, a source inside the VA tells me that the pulled copy of a guide to living wills that’s been made available to veterans

On Tuesday, Rep. Tim Walz joined all but one of his Minnesota DFL colleagues in support of a repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which prevents the federal government from recognizing legally married same-sex couples

Controversial statements and tactics by North Carolina Republicans have brought heightened attention to a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex