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First appeared March 4, 2008 Usually I limit my blogging to environment-related topics, but this was just too good to be true (though I assure you, it is).

The other day I wondered what the reported ascendence of Jim Steinberg to deputy secretary of state meant for Richard Holbrooke’s job prospects. Reading about

In the last month, there’s been a rediscovery of Ronald Reagan’s 1965 recording Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine. Sarah Palin deserves a

From the Department of Labor today comes more news that this recession will be around for a while: In January alone, 598,000 more Americans lost their jobs,

It’s not just former Vice President Dick Cheney who misrepresented what the CIA inspector general’s report says about the effectiveness of torture. Michael

TPM Muckraker talked to some experts to get their take on the significance of President Obama’s new government transparency orders, and they’re concluding that

Rep. Michele Bachmann was in Montana over the weekend raising money for Rep

Via Adam Serwer at Tapped, the New America Foundation has a new report out addressing that slippery, demagoguery-filled claim about Guantanamo detainees

Here is a statement issued by the Association of Patriotic Arab Americans in Military on Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s murder of 13 people at Ft. Hood yesterday: At

New documents obtained by TWI related to the case of Mohammed Jawad, an adolescent tortured by Afghan police and then abused again by U.S. interrogators, suggest that not only certain CIA interrogations, but also interrogations by the Department of Defense demand a broader investigation.

Osama bin Laden just released a new diatribe, available for download here if you’re interested, and it apparently hits the notes you’d expect: endless war if

Today, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the House minority leader, called on Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to offer an up-or-down vote on an extension of all of the

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With the filing of a state lawsuit to challenge the state’s Emergency Manager law, formally known as the Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act, we thought it would be worthwhile to take a look at how this controversial law came to be. On Jan.

In Florida, where donations to individual candidates are subject to strict limits, the big money in politics tends to flow through the parties, campaign committees and other channels.

I was on the scene at the Code Red rally against the health care reform bill, but I did not witness the events getting the most attention today -- the reported

Don Blankenship has never been accused of being genteel. Still, you’d think that even the pugnacious CEO of Massey Energy would recognize the disadvantages

The president of the Center for a New American Security, John Nagl, has an op-ed in the New York Daily News arguing against despair for the Afghanistan war.