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In an interview yesterday with the Orange County Register, picked up by Jason Leopold at The Public Record, John Yoo says he doesn’t regret the substance of any

U.S. population growth is petering out, with future growth to come mostly through immigration from developing countries, according to a report released today by

The DNC is gleefully circulating an AP article that flags another obvious, but important, shortcoming of Sen. John McCain’s domestic platform when viewed under

The Department of Homeland Security wants to prioritize dangerous criminals for deportation, and state laws that fast-track undocumented prisoners are helping.

Wells Fargo announced today it expects to turn a $3 billion profit for the first quarter of this year, some surprisingly good news from the troubled banking

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Casual observers of the health care debate might be shocked to learn that things are just getting started in Congress.

Earlier this year, Stanton C. Hazelroth appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee to testify as the head of the California Infrastructure and

I have to admit: I didn’t think it would take less than a full working day for Taliban spokesmen to deny reports that Mullah Omar was willing to negotiate an

American physicists awoke from the New Year’s holidays to find that Congress had filched their stockings. Under pressure from Bush to make cross-the-board

A report commissioned by the national oil spill commission found that new safety standards put forward by the Interior Department and the oil and gas industry

As the parade of Congressman Anthony Weiner’s self-love skin shots continues to tramp across the internet, University of Michigan foreign-policy big thinker Juan Cole says never mind the man’s sad digital life; Weiner’s take on the Israel-Palestinian conflict is much more relevant and lamentable .

Saturday Night Live’s debate skits and Tina Fey as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin usually draw all the attention this campaign season, especially from the political

President Barack Obama will give a speech on financial regulatory reform this morning at New York’s Cooper Union college, located one mile from Wall Street. He

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner got an earful last week from House Democrats wary of the White House proposal to pay for government rescues of Wall Street firms

The McCain campaign is apparently angry with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell for reporting that the Obama campaign staff suggested Sen. John McCain may have been able

Via Twitter, Markos Moulitsas leaks the results of the latest Research 2000/Daily Kos poll of the NY-23 special election. Since the last poll, Democratic

After months of negotiations over the summer between the House, the Senate and the Obama administration, the Senate has passed a bill to triple non-military aid