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Now that Rahm Emanuel has officially bid his adieu to the White House, Paul Blumenthal at the Sunlight Foundation figured it would be a good time to trawl

That’s the argument made by David Himmelstein, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, who

The Hill warns rain on Nov. 2 might lead to a Republican takeover. Ken Buck says he disagrees strongly with the separation of church and state ... ...

This caught me flat-footed: Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, just sent out a statement expressing concern over a U.S.-Iraq

The politicization of Justice Dept. hiring is not just an embarrassing Bush administration scandal-- it’s affected asylum seekers and immigrants. So says a new

Following last night’s speedy passage of sweeping finance reforms in the Senate Banking Committee, much of the focus has been on the Republicans’ strategy to

The Republican National Committee chairman’s statement: Some in the Republican Party are happy about this. I am not. Let’s be honest -- Senator Specter

ANCHORAGE -- Tuesday I picked up a stack of cds that hold all of the meeting minutes, agendas, resolutions and legislation from Gov. Sarah Palin’s time as mayor

They were massively outspent in both states, said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and it always takes a few tries to win these things.

As expected, President Obama reappointed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to another term today today, noting in remarks delivered in Martha’s Vineyard

<p>Update/Correction:&nbsp; We <a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/providing-needed">reported</a> on Feb. 29,

One more thing really quickly about Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s ascension to commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. On Friday, I blogged about changes in

What, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) wanted to know, would Gen. McChrystal have achieved in 18 months? We will have convinced the Afghan people that we and the

The University of Texas is once again embroiled in a possible Supreme Court case involving affirmative action in their admissions process. As the Austin

In Birmingham, Alabama today, the state goes to court to defend its new immigration law, which is set to go into effect Sept. 1. The United States has sued to block the law from being implemented, saying essentially that immigration is a federal issue.

The NY-23 special election has gotten so much attention that a special election in California, for the seat of now-Undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher, has

Today, Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank, kicked off a national advertising campaign. The goal is to explain to regular Americans what it actually

Dave has been following the saga of Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), who incited a GOP uproar this week after charging that the Republicans’ health reform strategy

Greg Sargent follows up with Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who left the impression in a Politico story on birthers that he was sympathetic to their