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Reports are that at this week’s meeting of NATO foreign ministers, the Obama administration will press for the allies to contribute 10,000 additional troops to

The Awl explains how to vote, partially based on a Daniel Craig picture... ...but you’ll probably just pick the better-looking candidate. You can play

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) President Obama sent new free trade agreements with Colombia, Korea and Panama to Congress on Monday, a move many Florida Republicans are praising despite reports of potential American job losses and persistent anti-labor violence in Colombia.

Democratic Reps. Heath Shuler (N.C.) and Jim Cooper (Tenn.) will introduce a bill this week that would require each state to create a bipartisan redistricting

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum’s campaign sent out a press release early Wednesday morning conceding the Republican primary for governor to former

Conservative celebrity Sarah Palin and right-wing blogger Erick Erickson are just two of the high profile far-right leaders disparaging Speaker of the House John Boehner for the budget deal he hammered out with President Obama and Democratic Senate leaders last week. Colorado “liberty movement” talk radio hosts are unhappy . Colorado Tea Party freshmen Congressmen Scott Tipton and Cory Gardner as well as Colorado Springs conservative Doug Lamborn broke with the Speaker and voted against the budget

As of now, Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill has 93 confirmed votes on party lines. Just a few decisive senators remain. Yesterday,

He’s a Republican gladiator, not a conservative, said American Conservative Union chairman David Keene.

In stark contrast to the orange chicken canard about the treatment of Guantanamo detainees comes this disturbing Andy Worthington report on malnutrition at

Today, in Senate dysfunction: Republicans filibustered a long-embattled small-business bill -- designed to create jobs, created with bipartisan input, and

The most succinct and uncontroversial explanation as to just how the recession began is that a massive surge in foreign capital in the early 2000s sent banks

This evening, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) attached an amendment with funding to preserve teachers’ jobs and to provide much-needed Medicaid funding to states to a

Five years ago, Colorado’s GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck refused to prosecute a rape case while acting as Weld County District Attorney, reports our sister site

A high school sophomore from New Jersey is challenging Rep. Michele Bachmann to a debate on civics and the U.S

Today, Democratic Sens. Debbie Stabenow (Mich.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) took to the Senate floor to argue for the Americans Want to Work Act, a bill

Former President George W. Bush’s tax cuts expire in January, and Democrats and Republicans both have committed to extending some, if not all, of the cuts.

The public has a right to know about attempt by lobbyists or special interests to influence the decisions of members on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, known informally as the Super Committee. That’s the basic sentiment behind a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S.

Despite efforts by her staff to work with key Democrats on a utility-only climate bill, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) is raising serious doubts that such a

LANSING — Across the Midwest, from Madison to Columbus, organized labor is rallying against legislative and executive moves they say will undermine the ability of workers to organize and bargain collectively. And Michigan is staring down the barrel of very similar questions, debates and legislation. “I am the president of a non-profit that intends to make RTW (Right to Work) a key initiative for the ’11-12 legislative session,” says former state Rep

Somos Republicans, a Latino group from the Southwest, wrote an open letter to the future House GOP leadership on Tuesday asking it to reconsider putting Rep.

This is your horrible, dystopian future: John Yoo, the former Office of Legal Counsel official who had a hand in crafting the Bush administration’s detentions,

The Des Moines Register has posted several video clips of what appears to be, at times, a tense interview with Sen. John McCain conducted yesterday by the

Department of Defense officials are expected to sign off as early as this week on a report detailing just how dependent the U.S. military is on rare earth