Breaking News

Although some prominent Illinoisans have come out strongly in favor of the plan to transfer some Guantanamo Bay detainees to the largely vacant Thomson

The Environmental Protection Agency issued its long-awaited endangerment finding today, formalizing its conclusion that greenhouse gases -- and the resulting

Speaking at a Labor Day event in Milwaukee, Wis., President Barack Obama unveiled a new stimulus package designed to jump-start the economy before the November

The Washington Post ran a thought-provoking op-ed Sunday that posed a simple question: What will future generations condemn us for? Kwame Anthony Appiah,

If the recent Supreme Court decisions denying prisoners the right to DNA evidence or allowing companies to dump toxic mining waste in public lakes were getting

Sometimes, a picture --or graph-- really does say a thousand words. The State of the Union plotted the S&P 500 and Sen. John McCain’s performance in the

ROANOKE, Va. -- Barack Obama is like you, said Sen. Jim Webb at a stadium rally here Friday, directly rebutting smears and lies that have swirled around the

The American economy was swept up in a rising tide of foreclosures this year as credit continued to ebb. These six players from the public and private sectors struggled to steer the country’s financial ship through treacherous waters.

After a 12-hour debate yesterday during which senators largely repeated the same arguments for and against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor that we heard

The Senate just confirmed Sonia Sotomayor as the newest justice on the United States Supreme Court by a vote of 68-31. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), presiding

One of the most important building blocks in the Bush administration’s apparatus of torture became public Thursday. An Aug. 1, 2002 memorandum from the

Responding to The New York Times report that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis’ lobbying firm was on the Freddie Mac payroll until the end of August, the

Although Leon Panetta hasn’t had so much as a single senator come out against his nomination to become CIA director, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

One big surprise and one cruise to victory in the Beehive State, as attorney Mike Lee scored an upset victory in the state’s Republican Senate primary and

Marc Ambinder has a good post explaining the president’s behavior after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried and failed to blow up Northwest Airlines

Remember when George W. Bush was supposed to be considering closing Guantanamo Bay? Explain why anyone ever believed that would happen, please. The New York

As the Senate takes up debate on climate legislation, environmental groups slam a biofuels provision.

The McCain campaign’s responses to the events of the last two days have revealed much about its strategy for dealing with crises. This strategy can be easily

My friend Ethan Pollack, an analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, writes to note that our hypothetical $250,000-a-year earner from this post might actually