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When Congress passed rules to reign in the most usurious of credit card practices, many Americans cheered. When Congress moved up the deadline for companies to

Add former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich to the list of 2012 competitors who will not participate in Nevada if that state’s caucuses interfere with New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary.

Mike’s excellent story today about the weak reforms of the payday lending industry proposed by onetime industry foe Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) details a

President Obama has named Fred H. Bartlit Jr. as chief counsel for The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, a

As we noted, the White House and Senate Democratic leaders yesterday killed legislation that would have significantly lowered prescription drug prices for

Despite new lobbying and ethics reforms, big business uses events like the political conventions to gain all-important access.

That Afghanistan law essentially robbing women of anything resembling autonomy over their own bodies is worse than I thought: it’s charmingly focused on the

Ernest Luning -- of TWI’s sister site, The Colorado Independent -- is on the scene in Denver, where President Obama is set to sign the much-anticipated stimulus

Can someone please bring an element of coherence to U.S. policy on civilian casualties in Afghanistan? The New York Times reports that a military inquiry into a

A bill that would have pulled state funding from local governments refusing to participate in the controversial Secure Communities program died in the Senate Monday.

No plans for Labor Day? The coal industry has you covered. At no cost to the public, the heavyweights of the industry are putting on the Friends of America

The core inflation rate is holding steady at 0.9 percent, the lowest rate in 44 years. The United States actually experienced a month of deflation in April.

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair delivered the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment briefing to the Senate intelligence committee today, and

When I started calling around Tuesday to the Departments of State and Defense about the prospective loss of Kyrgyzstan’s Manas air base, the critical facility