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With less than two weeks remaining before the Republican National Committee votes to select its next chair, the New Year’s holiday weekend saw a number of new

Hints of scandal in the Ensign affair. Still unanswered: Why did he come clean? Maybe Obama’s people need to drink more milk. Rep. Michele Bachmann

There’s no good response to the command Prove you don’t support Hezbollah. Acceding to a bad-faith frame is hopeless. That’s why we consider When did you

Add Iowa’s Democratic Gov. Chet Culver to the growing (and bipartisan) list of governors who have received letters containing a mysterious powder this week,

Congressional Democrats haven’t had much luck with efforts to move stimulus legislation this week. Plans to pump billions of dollars into public works projects

The mayhem left defense attorneys scrambling to talk to Omar Khadr. How quick can we get on the road, guys? was the last thing they said before racing out the door.

Marathon Petroleum Co. has announced that it will offer to buy more than 300 homes near the southwest Detroit refinery that is being upgraded to process more Canadian tar sands oil

While Democrats grilled the author of a bill that would authorize state-issued “Choose Life” license plates about the legislation’s political undertones,

The rise of online discounting, layaway programs, the reluctance of stores to haggle and, most important, the economic crisis could make this year’s Black Friday a dismal shopping day. But some analysts say that what has become for many consumers a ritual of the holiday season will keep cash registers busy.

Western Governors University, the nonprofit online school launching a Texas-specific subsidiary with Gov. Rick Perry’s support, will receive a $4.5 million

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) issued a strong statement today in response to the release of the CIA inspector general report

In Portland, Maine, San Francisco and New York, measures under consideration would allow non-citizen immigrants to vote in local elections.

In a newly published paper, Ben Lauderdale, a Ph.D. student in Princeton’s Department of Politics, uses a statistical analysis to plot the relative

Affordable housing goals did not spark the economic crisis -- despite what conservatives say. For lenders, the lure of the subprime market was high yields.

A bill to prohibit private health insurers from covering abortion passed the Florida Senate Health Regulations Committee 8 to 4 on Monday. Senate Bill 1414,

Elections Law Professor Richard Hasen weighs in obliquely on the current hysteria surrounding accusations that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is accepting (and

The caucus has a Mormon missionary zeal when it comes to spreading the gospel of states’ rights around the country, one Utah political observer says.