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Following up on my photos earlier, here’s some video from today’s tea party in our nation’s capital. It was a patriotic ceremony all around, and it kicked off

Sunday’s inaugural same-sex marriages in New York were met by thousands of protesters blasting the New York Legislature’s passage of the Marriage Equality

Sen. Ted Stevens, who was found guilty Monday on seven felony charges related to his failure to disclose gifts from an oil services firm, told the Fairbanks

For fourteen years, FAIR has sponsored a mass lobbying campaign they call Hold Their Feet to the Fire. This year’s event, days after the 9/12 taxpayer march on Washington, was the biggest yet.

If you weren’t watching MSNBC at around 7 a.m. EST today, you missed some great television. TWI’s Spencer Ackerman appeared on Morning Joe alongside NBC chief

A measure that would override city and county ordinances that help workers cheated out of wages by their employers cleared another hurdle in the state legislature this week. # The Senate Community Affairs committee on Monday approved a bill sponsored by Sen

As Colorado’s state legislature is set to take up the issue of legalizing civil unions , Barbara Bush, daughter of former president George W.

Though Republicans control the U.S. House and Democrats’ hold on the Senate took a hit in the 2010 election, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is trying once more to

The United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule passed by the Clinton administration for the management of more than 50 million acres of federal land across the United States designated as roadless areas. The Clinton rule limited road building on federal lands for industries such as mining, logging and oil and gas development, including more than 4 million acres in Colorado. The Bush administration set aside the Clinton rule, paving the way for more than a decade of litigation.

Wondering what exactly is up with the Pakistanis capturing Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the deputy commander of the Afghan Taliban? Perhaps the beginnings of

Greg Jaffe in The Washington Post, really earning his money. Anything I add would be redundant. Go read.

The smart new site American News Project (Full Disclosure: TWI will be collaborating with them on pieces) has another video up about environmental regulations.

Zachary Roth has details on the recent history of the Pelican Institute, the libertarian Louisiana think tank that brought James O’Keefe into the state before

In December 2006, HarperCollins fired editor/publisher Judith Regan. News Corporation, the parent company that owns HarperCollins, said at the time that the

After nearly two weeks worth of diplomatic tension, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a room packed with thousands of American Israel Public

Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo has been spewing his grandiose views on presidential power ever since leaving the Bush administration. So

As Tax Day looms (April 18 this year, thanks to the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation), several recent reports serve as reminders that the wealthiest

As we wrote today, there’s a real hope among housing experts that President Barack Obama’s new plan to tackle the foreclosure crisis will be wonderfully

Last week’s poorly researched Debbie Schlussel story on Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concerts burned some of the people who posted on it, such as David Frum.

Republicans have made it clear that Attorney General-designate Eric Holder is the most problematic of President-elect Barack Obama cabinet nominees. Sen. Arlen

It’s official -- David Axelrod, one of the masterminds behind President-elect Barack Obama’s White House bid, is taking a huge pay cut to come to Washington.

Coal production in the United States dropped by 8.5 percent in 2009 compared to 2008, the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the Energy