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Via Nate Silver, I’m just now seeing the full crosstabs of a 10/1 Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll. Looking it over, it’s tough to see how a straight-up

Michael Goldfarb writes: Is it possible that the Iraqi election experience had something to do with Iranian expectations of an election? If critics of the

After announcing that he would not mount a campaign against Sen. Debbie Stabenow earlier this year, former U.S.

It’s hard to imagine now, but it wasn’t all that long ago when it could be hard to find average folks who knew or cared that much about Fannie Mae and Freddie

A new study out today from the University of North Carolina Center for Community Capital provides more evidence that deregulatory zealots have a lot to answer

It turns out residents of Mattoon, Ill., aren’t too happy with the Department of Energy’s plans to can the embattled FutureGen project and replace it with a

Politico has the details of the ongoing meetings between environmentalists and electric utilities. And the prospects for a compromise don’t look good. So far,

In a move that activists call unnecessary and based on bigotry, Rep. Tom Hooker (R-Byron Center) wants to make sure that Michigan taxpayers do not foot the bill for any gender assignment surgeries Michigan prisoners may need as part of their treatment. Hooker readily admits he knows of no case where a Michigan prisoner has had gender reassignment surgery

By calling for the end of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, House Democratic leaders have put themselves in the uncomfortable position of

The Wall Street Journal has a piece today called Cash for Clunkers: An Expensive Environmental Fix, which argues that despite its bigger-than-expected

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports: Once BP’s runaway Macondo well is killed, it will no longer be considered part of oil spill reponse and the Department

The Houston Chronicle reported late last night that Michael Bromwich -- director of the newly formed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and

Is Rep. Michele Bachmann’s new post on the House Intelligence Committee an effort by GOP leadership to stifle her inflammatory statements in the media

Carl Levin (D-Mich.) is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Bob Gates is the secretary of defense and has just released a Pentagon budget proposal

Last week, CIA Director-designate appeared to argue that certain Al Qaeda detainees were too dangerous to stand trial -- something that threw civil libertarians

The Republican congressman from California who’ll be speaking at an Orange County Tea Party complains about the Department of Homeland Security report on

The poem issued forth from the speakers at the podium, reverberating off the western face of the Ohio Capitol. We are firefighters and policemen. We are the

A report written by the oil industry laying out recommendations for future oil spill responses says that the use of chemical dispersants to break up the oil

Some Mexican politicians are not happy with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comments yesterday comparing Mexico’s drug cartel problem to an insurgency and

Other judges will not be bound by the decision, but there are reasons for advocates to be hopeful.

When Rep. Michele Bachmann’s office declined to rule out a 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for president , religious right leaders responded with glee at what they say could be the next Ronald Reagan — except “swap boots for pumps.” Bachmann has long had a strong relationship with the religious right, and one of the first Iowa Republican caucus polls to include Bachmann show her taking away from two traditional religious right favorites: Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee.

The recent news that the Obama administration is considering sending some Guantanamo detainees to a maximum-security prison in Michigan, plus all the attention