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As I clicked publish on Art’s TV-pushes-the-vaccines-autism-line post a minute ago, I noticed CNN was airing a press conference held by parents of an autistic

Via David Dayen, Tom Braithwaite at the Financial Times reports a blockbuster for proponents of strong bank reform: Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s (D-Ark.) provision to

The president’s semi-active Twitter account just sent out this message: The House is voting on a historic clean energy bill today. Have you called your

New York Republican Congressman Peter King said the point of the controversial Homeland Security Committee “Islamic radicalization” hearings he is holding this week is to discover how Muslim Americans can help fight terrorism. He got an answer from Keith Ellison, a Muslim Representative from Minnesota, who broke down this morning and sobbed during testimony.

It’s just an early version -- or so the Democrats are saying -- but Senate leaders appear to be that much closer to extending the filing deadline for

For a moment, leave aside the legal questions about the Obama administration’s apparent decision that it possesses the legal authority to order the

The tea party movement, a phenomenon that many deem responsible for installing Florida’s all-Republican cabinet and turning over control of the House of Representatives to the GOP, continues to demonstrate its influence throughout the state and the country.

On Tuesday, we broke the story of an undisclosed Office of Legal Counsel memo from 2007 about what interrogation techniques were and weren’t legal for the CIA

Today at the Center for American Progress, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) urged the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction

Moderate Democrats have grown wary of big spending bills, fearing that support for such measures could haunt them on the campaign trail this year.

The week before the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is one of countless stories poking gentle fun at the stranger items on the schedule. Alex

Eartha Melzer, our colleague at Michigan Messenger, has been doing some of the best reporting on Dow Chemical’s successful efforts to evade responsibility for

The Wall Street Journal Political Diary reported that Republicans are worried that Gov. Charlie Crist, independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida, is

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday he still would like to see hearings on abuses of the 14th Amendment by illegal immigrants who come

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) got Fred Roitz of Blackwater -- sorry, Xe Services, the new name for the company -- to say that Blackwater shell company Paravant

Michael Barbaro previews a possible New York Senate bid by former Defense Department adviser Dan Senor, by my count the 1045th person to consider challenging

Action comes less than a month after Pentagon leadership suggested the ban on open gay service wouldn’t be overturned this year.

On mortgage giant Freddie Mac’s blog, Featured Perspectives, executive Don Bisenius takes on strategic defaulters -- underwater mortgage-holders (that is,