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An interesting, albeit limited, bill passed the House yesterday to change part of immigration law to recognize proxy marriages involving military service

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

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

The government’s state secrets argument was back in full force yesterday, this time being made by the Justice Department before the Ninth Circuit Court of

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

Federal agencies have stepped up efforts to crack down on medical marijuana, and while high-profile ATF raids may be more immediately shocking, there is a less

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

Yesterday I listed the year’s upcoming Young Eagles RNC fundraisers and wondered what their fate would be. Today we get an answer: We are canceling all Young

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

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

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

Earlier this month, a CNN poll found that more Americans oppose the Afghanistan war than support it for (what I think was) the first time since the 2001

The results of a new Gallup poll show that between 2001 and 2009, the percentage of Americans who identify as Republican or lean Republican has declined in