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Officially, today marks Armenian Remembrance Day, set aside to honor the roughly 1.5 million Armenians killed at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915. But in

I’ve put in calls to the lawyers listed in official documents for the Committee for Truth in Politics, the organization running ads that portray financial

Keying off a statistic cited by the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Wall Street Journal editorial board recently issued a glowing opinion

The vice president is impressed with the woman he considers a virtual female clone of himself.

For thousands of Americans without work and collecting unemployment insurance, the process gets stickier today with the arrival of the deadline for accessing

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart took on Republicans who are attempting to defund Planned Parenthood, and as an example he used Rep.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department today announced that it had negotiated a settlement with a major pipeline company to pay $41

Karen Tumlin, the managing attorney at the National Immigration Law Center, told the American Independent that HB 56, the Alabama immigration law, “hearkens back to the days of Jim Crow.

A double-take-inducing item from Time’s report on Palin’s book: In addition to the trade edition, there will also be a special version for the Christian

Bethany Haley, a spokeswoman for the Republican congressman from Arizona, expands on the comments Franks made about President Obama’s citizenship at a town hall

Last week, I wrote a story on nascent movements to organize the unemployed, a group already connected via enormous online networks and politically fired-up

The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday approved legislation empowering states to create public insurance plans that would negotiate rates on behalf of some of

Source: Gfpeck, Flickr A bill recently introduced by congressmen from Pennsylvania and Illinois could have a far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 union workers on Aug. 1

More bad news for the economy as the latest report from the Department of Labor shows a jump in new weekly unemployment claims to 429,000, a jump of 9,000. The four-week average remains at 426,250 claims

Sen. Scott Dibble told Minnesota Public Radio that 100,000 emails sent to legislators by gay marriage supporters were clogging the servers and that the Senate IT department was set to delete them Monday morning. The emails, sent through the Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBT rights group, chided Republicans and a handful of DFLers who voted Saturday night to put a constitutional ban on gay marriage on the ballot in 2012.

On July 1, two Republican members of Missouri’s state legislature, and a representative of one other member, showed up at meetings called by Orly queen of the

2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Mitt Romney, the GOP presidential candidate who edged out an eight-vote victory over Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses, has a long track record on education that includes standardized testing and accountability, charter schools and school vouchers. Education Week writes : Romney has a long record and a lot of ideas on education redesign.

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) echoed Afghan human rights official Nader Nadery: What prevents the Community Defense Initiative, in which the U.S. backs local