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Undocumented workers are working nearly 100 hours per week in unsafe conditions to clean up the Enbridge oil spill in Battle Creek, Mich., according to an

Via Abu Muqawama, let’s presume for the sake of argument that we know everything we need to know about the Obama administration’s forthcoming shift in

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee, just delivered a floor speech that is deeply

After being repudiated by pillars of the GOP legal establishment over a video that calls Justice Department lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees the

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, in a New York Times opinion piece, suggests holding off on letting tax rates rise for wealthy Americans: The

From the office of Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: “President Obama’s plan establishes a reasonable

GUANTANAMO BAY -- The first surprise of the first full-blown hearing of the military commissions under President Obama? The presence of David Iglesias, the

Yesterday, TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to talk about his reporting on this past weekend’s How to Take Back America conference in St.

First in a two-part series on what to expect on the economy from each presidential candidate.

After Florida Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum proposed Arizona-style immigration legislation, his primary opponent argued he

After digging through the newly-disclosed Office of Legal Counsel memos, my friend Marcy Wheeler of Firedoglake discovered that CIA interrogators waterboarded

Since my story a few weeks ago on the Jeppesen Dataplan case, there’s been growing pressure on the Obama administration to reverse course and stop asserting

Bill Kristol’s role in the 1993 health care debate gives him some authority whe he talks about Republican strategy now. His advice for the party on health

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its proposed new rules for air pollution from the oil and natural gas industry today, which the agency says

Kerry asks about Iran. Sounds surprisingly hawkish. What are the big carrots and the big sticks that the Obama administration will use to get Iran in

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) The Bradenton Herald is reporting that the federal Department of Justice has launched an investigation into Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota

I reported yesterday that Gen. Stanley McChrystal will probably testify next week about Afghanistan war strategy. It’ll be interesting to see if he faces

The risible conspiracy theories about President-elect Barack Obama’s American heritage never really reached the mainstream media. There were some local news