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As the polls open in Florida, political pundits agree that turnout could be the key to determining who walks away with the GOP governor’s nomination: Will

In response to a recent TWI report, the nation’s leading financial literacy group has launched an investigation into its conflict-of-interest policies.

Moments ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tried to set up a series of Wednesday afternoon votes on the first four amendments to the

After supporting restrictionist immigration measures for most of their history, labor unions are now pushing for an easier path to citizenship.

Enacting a comprehensive set of medical malpractice reforms would reduce nationwide health care spending by 0.5* percent, according to a report released today

I was surprised to see Sam Stein of The Huffington Post report Dick Cheney’s remarks on gay marriage as the former vice president taking a more progressive

From the foxes-guarding-the-henhouse department, Neal Wolin, who served as general counsel to the Treasury during the final years of the Clinton administration,

This seems like some curious behavior from a party that ostensibly wants to win some elections in Illinois next year. In a sizable embarrassment for the White

Marcy Wheeler may have solved a mystery about the previously unacknowledged CIA enhanced interrogation technique of prolonged diapering. I wondered in my

According to a recent report released by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured , about 76 percent of the 49.1 million uninsured people in the United States come from working families. The report (.pdf) explains that most uninsured workers tend to be self-employed or work for smaller companies.

Looks like Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., has lost some of his authority to arrest people he suspects are illegal immigrants. Under the

Victoria McGrane takes stock of the libertarian/liberal coalition against Ben Bernanke getting a second term at the Federal Reserve, reporting out some of the

This is at least the fourth time I’ve heard someone refer to the Bush administration’s proposed regulation on the Endangered Species Act as the fox guarding

The president will speak from the Oval Office on Tuesday to discuss the spill, as Senate leaders work to patch together an energy bill.

Hillary Chabot talks to grumpy Massachusetts Republicans who think they have an outside chance at an upset in next month’s special election for U.S. Senate -- a

Ah, once again: the stakes in Iraq. From Bush’s speech at Fort Bragg yesterday: Some of our fellow citizens wonder whether the mission in Iraq is worth the

Noam Scheiber directs us to an interesting Politico assessment of how changes in the handling of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner have boosted his

The Huffington Post’s unstoppable Nico Pitney culls together some of the tweets that @PersianKiwi sent out on Mir Hussein Moussavi’s address to today’s huge

GOP presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann shared her vision of an aggressive foreign policy, which she said would return the nation to its proper role as leader of the free world, at the annual convention of the American Legion in Minneapolis Thursday.

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy wasn’t the only Obama administration official who addressed the American Enterprise Institute this