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This morning’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics contained much bad news.

Several independent experts believe the facility is most likely being constructed to support a nuclear weapons program, though the White House’s explanation should be assessed carefully.

President Obama is expected at 10 a.m. today to announce his nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Kagan, the former dean of

Although two of the more controversial provisions of Georgia’s new immigration enforcement were blocked by a federal judge on Monday, other provisions that

ANCHORAGE -- We’re still going through documents from the time Sarah Palin served as mayor of her hometown, Wasilla, that I picked up from the clerk’s office on

The Obama administration doesn’t want to fight with Afghan President Hamid Karzai anymore. Amb. Richard Holbrooke, the special representative to Afghanistan and

So the ACLU doesn’t really like FBI Director Robert S. Mueller’s proposed new guidelines for investigations, fearing that the relaxed rules could open the door

Tomorrow afternoon, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will meet to examine the country’s mine safety policies -- the first such

The Energy Information Administration last week released its monthly report on the short-term energy outlook for the U.S., in which it found that the bad

Via Salon, the Gold’s Gym controversy -- sparked by a massive donation from the Robert Rowling, the owner of Gold’s parent company, TRT Holdings, to

Suzy Khimm has a good piece at Mother Jones today on the crop of immigration hardliners who are favored to take over as governors of Georgia, Colorado, New

Among the cases the Supreme Court will consider reviewing in its private meeting tomorrow are two controversial cases arising out of the war on terror. Both

TWI’s own Spencer Ackerman appeared on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show Wednesday to discuss Afghanistan, contractors, and the shocking scandal that has

Good: Because Don McLeroy -- the guy who, according to The New York Times, identifies himself as a young-earth creationist who believes that the earth was

What I worry about, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a gathering yesterday at the Center for Middle East Peace, is that a failure to act now

In three weeks, the Wall Street protest movement hopes to implement a November 5 th walkout, the effects of which could have a far greater impact than months of sit-ins and protests. Being billed as Bank Transfer Day, and as of two weeks ago having attracted 14,000 RSVPs via Facebook to the national event, the campaign is urging Americans to close their accounts at large banks and move their money to credit unions

Here is the letter that John Fonte of the Ethics and Public Policy Center is passing around conservative circles, collecting signatures to oppose the nomination

According to The New York Times, Ambassador Peter Galbraith, the top U.S. official on the United Nations’ Afghanistan mission, has been fired after urging his

A friend of a friend just received the following email from a junior officer serving in Iraq. It makes for especially powerful reading in the wake of the Second

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) faces a dilemma as he decides whether to vote for Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s confirmation as a Supreme Court justice: He is

Tomorrow New York Republican Rep. Peter King will open his Homeland Security Committee hearings on the question of whether or not Muslim-Americans are doing enough to help safeguard the nation from terrorism. The hearings have been pilloried as an exercise in attention-grabbing ethnic-baiting and scapegoating and as an essentially unfair government-sanctioned exercise in Islamophobia