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The Personhood Mississippi logo (Pic via Facebook) Both candidates for Mississippi attorney general have declared that they plan to vote “yes” for Amendment 26, which would outlaw abortion and some forms of birth control in the state. Democratic incumbent Jim Hood and his Republican challenger, Steve Simpson, have chosen to keep private their views on some initiatives — like voter identification and eminent domain

In a monthly online newsletter published last week on the Louisiana School Boards Association website, the teacher group alleges the Recovery School District in

Oil has been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon drilling site for more than two months now -- but TWI’s video team has done us the favor

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives keeps gun trafficking data secret. Republicans are catching on to the power of the tweet. The White

After House passage of his pre-abortion sonogram bill, state Rep. Sid Miller (R-Stephenville) explained to state Rep. Wayne Christian (R-Center) that sonograms

This morning, members of the Federal Open Market Committee are meeting to discuss the country’s monetary policy. They are expected to release a report at 2:15

In the midst of the public outcry over $165 million in bonuses for AIG executives, Republicans are treading much more reluctantly around the government’s powers to demand contract changes to limit employee pay.

Yesterday’s New York Times focused attention on Florida’s other Senate candidate, Republican Marco Rubio. Tomorrow was supposed to be a high point for the

Late last year, TWI wrote about a landmark lawsuit in Cleveland, in which housing lawyers were trying to stop banks from dumping their rundown and neglected

Since my earlier post on Yaser Hamdi’s express agreement not to sue the United States for his indefinite detention and mistreatment, Cornell Law Professor

Via Jessica Grose, Alexandra Zavis has a frightening story in today’s Los Angeles Times about how the U.S. military is now sponsoring a “Daughters of

Now that Rep. Kendrick Meek’s (D-Fl.) poll numbers are improving in advance of his Aug. 24 Senate primary, President Obama finally decided that it might be a

PHOENIX -- Popular Arizona Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano is being mentioned as a potential top member of the Obama administration. Some say the former U.S. attorney would make a ’great’ attorney general.

More evidence that it pays to be a boring, hard-right candidate in an election season that contains Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell and Ken Buck, courtesy of

Most of the discussion of President-elect Barack Obama’s appointments announced Monday focused on whether Leon Panetta does or doesn’t have the experience

It causes states to do things for a while, says New America Foundation nuclear expert Jeffrey Lewis.

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s ranking member, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) just grilled Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on her ruling in Ricci v.

Even though things don’t look so good for former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) bid to keep Al Franken from being seated as Minnesota’s junior senator, Coleman’s

As the battle over legalizing same-sex marriage wages on in New York, new details have surfaced about the defeat of a simliar measure in Maryland: A coalition of African-American conservative groups formed to sway religious Marylanders to appeal to lawmakers to vote against same-sex marriage. The coalition developed an effective narrative, appealing to the black community’s perceived ownership of civil rights. Calls were made. E-mails were sent. Conservative lawmakers joined in, some going so far as to enlist parishes to pressure gay-marriage-supporting delegates in their churches to change their votes. And it worked.