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Former Bill Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis is about as anti-progressive as you can get and still be a Democrat -- here’s Davis in 2006 calling liberal opponents of

Forget $400 haircuts -- accessorizing the GOP vice presidential nominee requires serious cash. Politico reports that the Republican National Committee

Multilateral talks with Iran over its nuclear program are underway in Geneva. There are reports that there has been one breakout meeting between chief U.S.

With Congress returning this week, I thought it would be a good time to do a quick overview of what to expect on energy and environmental legislation. The

Iowa’s school districts’ operating budgets are the major roadblock preventing the end of the legislative session, Democrats said Thursday. While both sides of the aisle continue to negotiate and discuss how the state should budget, an unwillingness to compromise on Iowa schools’ allowable growth and property tax relief is keeping lawmakers in a deadlock

Anyone with a serious S&M fetish will appreciate the auction, announced Monday, of a collection of 252 torture devices from the 16th and 17th centuries.

The implementation of a statewide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program didn’t come easily: Gov. Rick Scott opposed legislation requiring the creation of a drug-monitoring database, then later backtracked, lending his support. Funding for the database was also a sticking point.

I am a pro-life conservative, said Carly Fiorina. I believe in the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. I am a fiscal conservative. In other words, I share the conservative values that many Republican voters share, and have been public about that for a very long time.

Following last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, Minnesota Democrats are proposing a constitutional amendment to define an individual as a “natural person.” The 2010 ruling gave corporations certain rights as “persons” and allowed them to engage in new levels of political activity. Sen

DES MOINES — The west steps of the state Capitol saw around 400 conservative activists Tuesday, mostly dressed in red, criticizing gay rights supporters and calling on the Iowa Senate to pass HJR 6 , which would set the stage for Iowans to vote on a constitutional ban of same-sex marriages.

Texas Republicans are trying to repeal a two-year-old law that allows transgendered people to to marry with a court-approved proof of sex change, as the

Within president Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill he announced Thursday in an address to a joint session of Congress, some $55 billion would go directly to

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced today a series of international priorities for the agency, including working across

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), suffering from brain cancer, will step down from the powerful Judiciary Committee when Congress returns to Washington in January,

Friends of the Earth, which released a series of emails between the State Department and TransCanada lobbyist Paul Elliott last week, is now asking the Department of Justice to investigate possible legal violations based on those communications. In a letter to the DOJ, the group says: On behalf of Friends of the Earth, I am submitting the following information to demonstrate that, Paul Elliott, a government relations employee of TransCanada, has acted as agent of a foreign principal and therefore violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Mustafa Barghouti, a leading voice for a non-violent solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, says the United States can still foster change in the region.

Naturally, it’s beneath stuff about 11 people dying in a Mosul suicide bombing, but still: Egypt is due to reopen its embassy in Baghdad, closed since