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According to Forbes magazine , Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is following the lead of Michigan Gov

The New York Times today does a nice job pointing out some of the limitations of the co-op coverage model being pushed by Gang of Six member Sen. Kent Conrad

If you feel like you’re trying to muddle through absorbing and understanding what happened on Wall Street, and why we are in the mess we’re in, this short video

Willie Bishop sits in a St. Charles County, Mo., jail awaiting trial on charges of recklessly and knowingly exposing some one to HIV. His act of exposure? The

This morning, it was President Obama blaming Massey Energy (among others) for not doing more to prevent last week’s deadly mining blast in West Virginia. This

If it’s in The Washington Independent two weeks ago, you can read it on MSNBC’s website today.

Here’s The Washington Post’s idea of debate on AIG: The leadoff contributor to the op-ed page’s ’Topic A section is former AIG CEO Maurice Greenberg, who

President Barack Obama has signaled he will not go to bat for birth control in the economic stimulus bill -- a move likely to set off a firestorm among powerful

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a bipartisan report today that concluded George W. Bush abused his claim of executive privilege

In a sign that he may be giving up hope in his bid to hold onto his U.S. Senate seat, Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) has taken a consulting job with the Republican

Tea Party and Koch-funded libertarian organizations took to the Capitol steps Friday in an attempt to call on Colorado legislators and politicians to fight against union rights in Wisconsin and voice their commitment to Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan .

In 2008, the Obama-Biden ticket carried Rep. Bill Delahunt’s (D-Mass.) district--which lopes down from Boston across the South Shore of Massachusetts Bay--by 12

After the rejection of Ohio’s union-busting law, Senate Bill 5, on Tuesday, Democrats and media alike are crowing the results as good news for 2012, while

Right now, that video of 47-year-old unemployed Susan Boyle of Scotland taking Britain’s Got Talent by surprise with her soaring voice continues spread

It was not what he said, but what he didn’t say that’s caused the uproar. Asked this week about the iniquities between health insurance coverage for birth

The conservative congressman from North Carolina, a constant critic of the census -- one of the people who sounded the alarm about politicization when the

Montana is a hotbed of contradiction, especially when it comes to medical marijuana. Voters overwhelmingly approved medical marijuana in 2004, but in 2011 the state legislature voted to dramatically restrict access to medical marijuana.

Mike Scheuer’s Google Alerts must be going crazy after his Glenn Beck appearance, because he left this message in the comment thread on my earlier

As I recount in this morning’s story, the first of three days of Tea Party events in D.C. consisted of a political rally followed by direct lobbying between Tea

EducationWeek published a story Thursday examining new fault lines that have emerged within traditional coalitions over the subject of urban-area charter

The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida has begun beefing up its legal staff to possibly take on some of the more questionable bills passed during Florida’s recent legislative session. Among the pieces of legislation under scrutiny are three of the five anti-abortion rights measures passed this year . # Maria Kayanan, Associate Legal Director for the ACLU of Florida, tells The Florida Independent that the ACLU of Florida is still looking closely at all the legislation that could prove problematic