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Today, more stories are adding detail to the debate over whether Elizabeth Warren should become the first head of the Consumer Financial Protection

Christine Fair of RAND runs through some of the reasons why militancy has grown in Pakistan despite something like $10 billion in mostly military aid coming

A Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday shows that 66 percent of likely U.S. voters say the country is heading in the wrong direction; 27 percent are

It’s been partly necessitated by the fact that the lawmakers themselves delayed the effective date of their bill that would do the same thing. That is, both

Via Andrew Sullivan, the Anti-Defamation League has released a statement backing Sarah Palin and other conservative figures who have come out against the

Reuters is reporting that an Alaska environmentalist is returning to court to force the company responsible for the Exxon Valdez oil spill to pay for its long-term ecological consequences: # Exxon has not paid the bill, and the governments have yet to take the matter to court. # Now an Alaska environmentalist is seeking to persuade a federal judge to compel Exxon to pay the $92 million, plus another $23 million in interest. # At stake is more than money that could be used restore a Prince William Sound still injured by the 11 million gallon spill, said Rick Steiner, the retired University of Alaska marine science professor and longtime Alaska activist who filed the motion to compel the payment

Sen. Marco Rubio , R-Fla., wants to fight water regulations that limit the amount of waste allowed to be dumped in Florida waters. # Rubio’s plan mirrors a similar measure by Rep.

This morning, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Neil Barofsky, released his latest quarterly report on the state of the Obama

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s decision last month to block nearly $500,000 in state film subsidies to the MTV show Jersey Shore has sparked another round

By opposing the popular campaign finance disclosure bill, Senate Republicans risk alienating voters. Or so Democrats hope.

In a webinar with anti-abortion rights activists Tuesday evening, Rep. Michele Bachmann said that she voted against the continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown because it didn’t defund Planned Parenthood and “Obamacare.” She called abortion the “watershed issue of our time” and said she’s prepared to fight “eyeball-to-eyeball” to defund Planned Parenthood in the next continuing resolution in two weeks.

Last week, conservatives grew annoyed with the way Democrats discussed the threats against them -- it was unfair, said critics of the health care bill, to link

As we just noted, Senate Republicans are urging consideration of three amendments on the proposal to extend federal unemployment benefits, but only two are the

Peter Feaver, a political scientist at Duke University who served on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, has

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul ‘s Iowa campaign has reached out to farmers and gun owners during the past two weeks.

A federal court is imposing a $67,900 fine on a car dealership once owned by Rep.

Laura Rozen -- writing on her personal blog -- publishes a surprising email she got from Iran. Who’s the foreign agent now? The Arab, Israeli, Palestinian

The Wall Street Journal has picked a fight with local Chambers of Commerce in Tennessee over their hesitance to support a state voucher program that recently

In the late 1950’s, the federal government began investigating reports that radiation from uranium ore mines in the Navajo Nation was causing lung cancer

President Obama’s decision today to deploy 1,200 National Guard troops to beef up security on the U.S.-Mexico border, at a cost of $500 million, has fallen

That was fast. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) just announced that the Senate Armed Services Committee, which he chairs, will hold confirmation hearings Thursday for

The Wisconsin supreme court election held yesterday is still too close to call.