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One more thing on Rashid Khalidi. Eric Alterman and Adam Serwer make good points about the McCarthyism at work when a noted Palestinian scholar is smeared as

The Supreme Court today announced it won’t get involved in a lawsuit brought by El Paso and other Texas counties against Homeland Security Secretary Janet

Former presidential contender John Edwards has been largely in hiding since admitting last August to an extramarital affair with a woman who later worked for

A handful of religious right groups are criticizing the Obama administration’s role in urging countries doing business with the United States to ease up on

Fewer Americans have full-time, permanent jobs that offer employer-provided health insurance, a report from The Iowa Policy Project finds, largely due to a changing labor market. The report from the nonpartisan, nonprofit group found a shift from manufacturing to service jobs and from long-term to short-term employment has left fewer Americans uninsured, and the recession has intensified those trends.

There are few light moments in the habeas corpus cases of Guantanamo detainees, given that most of these men have been holed away in cells or cages for years

As best I can piece together this morning, the Iranian regime’s crackdown is halting the momentum of the opposition. Andrew says he can find no sign of today’s

A new generation of pioneers have struck proverbial gold at an abandoned silver mine near Aspen. What was once a wasteland of arsenic, cadmium, lead and zinc on a steep mountainside that abuts Castle Creek is now a haven for natural grasses and wildflowers that have stabilized the slope and drastically reduced the risk of the heavy metals crashing into the city’s main water supply. The striking change of scenery around Hope Mine is the result of the first whole-scale reclamation project ever attempted in the United States, and possibly the world, using biochar — a type of charcoal produced through the thermal treatment of organic material in an oxygen-limited environment.

Tales of clunker horror stories have consumer advocates worried the fallout will continue for months.

Henry Blodget at Clusterstock points out that Coke CEO Muhtar Kent penned a Wall Street Journal editorial that suggests people are fat and lazy all on their

In response to the 2002 national-security principles’ committee meetings chaired by Condoleezza Rice that I wrote about in my piece today, filmmaker Robert

Senator Michael Bennet is perhaps never in finer form than when he rails against his own kind. Armed with charts, he gave a funny, pointed floor speech earlier this week, where he noted that the approval rating of Congress stands at about nine percent today. He compared that with the approval ratings of British Petroleum during the Deepwater spill (quite a bit higher) and with the percentage of people who think America should become communist (a little higher).

At Tuesday night’s annual Society of Professional Journalists awards banquet, the Minnesota Independent was honored with three Page One Awards, including first place prize for “Best Independent News Blog.” In that category, judges wrote that the Minnesota Independent is “ easy to navigate” and offers “lots of supplemental information and good participation from readers.” Also taking home a first was photographer Kathy Easthagen for her photo essay about President Barack Obama’s 2010 rally at the University of Minnesota with then-candidate and current governor Mark Dayton (who gave the keynote speech at last night’s banquet).

<div class="mini gray">Photo credit: Lauren Burke, WDCPix</div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>In the battle to court young

Gov. Rick Snyder and his Budget and Treasury officials are meeting with bond rating agencies in New York City today in an effort to drive down borrowing costs for the state. Snyder spokeswoman Sara Wurfel told the Detroit News that Snyder wants “to demonstrate and show all the steps Michigan is taking to get its fiscal house in order.“ Michigan has an AA- rating from Fitch Ratings and Standard and Poor’s.

Even while Massey Energy is touting another record setting year for safety, the Charleston Daily Mail today has a different story: Safety inspectors

For more than seven weeks, Jeannie Mathis has been waiting for a check from the Gulf Coast Claims Facility. And for seven weeks, her claim has been “under review.”

The New York Times runs a very good piece about the strained, tentative and sub rosa relationship between the Obama administration and American Muslim

Reporters everywhere are sharpening their best baseball metaphors for Feb. 13 when ace pitcher Roger Clemens responds to allegations of steroid use before the

Last week, CNN published a list of billions of dollars in stimulus provisions that the Republicans’ congressional leadership had deemed wasteful. The list

Today’s edition of the GOP proposes plan that consists of vague attacks on Democrats story is the broad outline of a health care plan just released by the

I spent my morning attending the fifth birthday of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the management organization dedicated to marshaling the