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Much as Barack Obama may deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for changing the climate toward international diplomacy and recognizing the value in cooperating with the

A controversial bill that would have made it a crime to take photographs of ag facilities in Florida has met its demise for this session, but similar legislation remains a possibility in Minnesota and Iowa.

Adam Serwer has an interesting piece at The American Prospect breaking down the debate over how to reform immigration and explaining how both Republicans and

Climate chief Sir Nicholas Stern tells us to go vegetarian; conservative bloggers cry radical wacko. The SuperFreakonomics authors shrug off criticism on the

The administration insists there is no constitutional right to humane treatment by U.S. authorities outside the United States.

Opponents and backers of the proposed San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act may be camped out in front of the Ridgway Community Center starting tomorrow if competing email alerts and website messages are to be believed. U.S.

U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) will announce Monday he will not run for re-election in 2012 after being in the Senate since 1987, scoops Chris Cillizza of the

Google is planning to fork over about $200 million in an initial investment to help build a massive set of power lines along the East Coast that would help move

PHILADELPHIA -- With a steady stream of info on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- including a torrent from TWI’s own Laura McGann, now on the scene in Alaska --

Politico has a story that notes today’s conservative movement is essentially getting bankrolled by ten wealthy donors. Having shied away during the end of the

One point about this Iraqi Interior Ministry raid conducted by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s forces. I noticed my reporting about it earlier today had a fair

In the acknowledgments of Going Rogue, Sarah Palin gives a hearty and extended thanks to conservative media figures, using only their first names. To some

John Conyers (D-Detroit) could have a tough time keeping a seat in Congress under the Republican redistricitng plan that is expected to be approved by Gov. Rick Snyder. Politico reports: The redistricting plan crafted by Michigan Republicans tears Conyers’s strongholds of Detroit’s West Side and Highland Park out of the 14th District and sticks him with hundreds of thousands of new constituents in nearby Oakland County and the wealthy lakeside Grosse Pointe communities.

I covered Eric Holder’s Senate Judiciary Committee testimony yesterday, so I was unable to cover a fascinating and near-simultaneous hearing on Iran in the

We’re still waiting to hear what’s happening in Vienna, where Iran is negotiating with the international community over whether to allow 75 percent of its

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For the second time in 12 months, the Los Angeles Times published a comprehensive evaluation of teachers within the Los Angeles Unified School District last

I’ve just spoken to Andrew Breitbart, the proprietor of Big Government--the website which published and promoted James O’Keefe’s undercover sting of ACORN

The Republican National Committee emails reporters to announce a hefty fundraising haul for June that leaves it with $23.7 million in the bank, a solid amount