Breaking News

The group that is coordinating an effort to repeal Michigan’s Emergency Manager law has launched an online documentary titled Dictators Over Communities of Color: Coming to a Town Near You .

It’s the first rule of congressional lawmaking: Never miss an opportunity to grab everything you can for your constituents, even if it comes at the expense of

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is scheduled to hold a press conference today to decry the Democrats’ stimulus package and the trillions of

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Sept. 28, 2009. Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Dec. 2, 2009. One day after Senate Majority

I owe it to a press release for the Center for Constitutional Rights for pointing this out to me, but think back to the halcyon days of early December 2009,

That’s the warning coming today from the folks at the Center for Public Integrity, who caution that the recent High Court decision empowering corporations to

If there was one over-arching theme of the final night of the Republican National Convention, it was that liberals cannot be trusted to run things. From former

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is hitting Massachusetts GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown over an ad launched yesterday by a 527 called Americans

It may be political poison for U.S. government officials to talk to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the taboo does not extend to NPR. NPR’s Steve

Scott Brown, the Republican newly elected to replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), has been surprisingly forthcoming about his vote in favor of the

UPDATED at 11:58 p.m., with details on how to watch the speech live. Acknowledging that America’s current immigration system is broken, President Obama is

It was a tough morning for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, summoned to Capitol Hill to testify on the decision-making surrounding the federal bailout of

Efforts by some of Washington’s biggest campaign spenders, like the NRA, may have scared enough Democrats to make the legislation impossible to pass in its current form.

This is a little bit inside baseball, but it lends a glimpse at the relationship between politics and policy in Washington. Democrats, as they push to renew

In a letter sent today to Rep.

...So says Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), citing (what else?) the snowy spell that hit the nation’s capital over the weekend, and is expected to dump as

And so ends a demagoguery-laced vignette from the Age of Terrorism, as Daphne and Weigel have been all over: the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau has agreed to

On Saturday, the commander of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division, Maj. Gen. James Terry, put up an open forum on his Website for his soldiers, officers and

The National Republican Congressional Committee has begun running ads against U.S.

A national progressive organization is once again launching a television ad in Iowa, this time urging President Barack Obama to “fight, don’t cave” on ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.

In the latest show of disapproval for Gov. Rick Perry’s prayer and fasting rally, the Houston Clergy Council (HCC) has penned a letter expressing its opposition