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A poll earlier this year showed that 80 percent of Americans disapproved of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Most people want corporate campaign

Protesters at a Wednesday Minnesotans for a Fair Economy rally outside Wells Fargo’s Minneapolis office donned huge puppet masks showing the faces of U.S.

A group of liberal House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would cap credit card rates at 18 percent. This should not to be confused with the push

The vote was 54 to 45 to set the bill aside, with seven Democrats (all men) voting to keep the bill alive, and two Republicans (both women) voting to table the

Michael Calderone has the story -- next month I’ll be taking my reporting from TWI to The Washington Post. I want to take a moment to point out that the sort of

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Over the past 18 months, anyone proposing any policy for extricating the United States from the Iraqi quagmire has been told by critics that the proposal

One of the biggest fears surrounding contentious new breast-cancer screening guidelines, which were unveiled last month by the U.S. Preventive Services Task

Patrick Murphy, one of two Democrats running to unseat tea party favorite Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, has reported that he raised $450,000 in the second quarter. # The other Democrat running against West, Emily’s List-endorsed Lois Frankel , has not disclosed how much she raised yet

Iraq war veterans in Iowa held their own version of the Winter Soldier investigation covered by The Washington Independent last week. Four Iraq veterans

What, you thought I stopped going after Mike O’Hanlon? He’s re-upped in the Washington Post today: There is real hope for major progress on most of these

The GOP candidate in the Massachusetts special election for Senate will be on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show tonight, according to David Bernstein of the Boston

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, in a conference call with reporters today, boldly confronted the big issue on the minds of American voters: Sen. Barack

During last night’s presidential debate at Hofstra University, Sen. John McCain, as he often does on the trail, sang the praises of the stalled Colombian Free

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) announced last month that she wants to hold weekly “Constitution classes” for new members of Congress in the hopes of

Few things look as old as a vision of the future that’s past its shelf life. When Disneyland’s “House of the Future” opened in 1957, visitors were

Welcome to the right’s new meme on cap-and-trade. Planet Gore, National Review’s blog whose sole purpose is to ridicule climate change activism -- and, in

Since the beginning of the financial meltdown last year, Mike Lillis, The Washington Independent’s congressional correspondent, has been documenting the failure

Adele Stan has a great play-by-play on the recent RightOnline conference, with a focus on the provenance of the event’s big stars. One-third of the speakers

A proposed Utah immigration law that would allow police and federal immigration officials to access Utah’s driving privilege-card database could scare some

The Senate rejected today an amendment to the small business bill sponsored by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) that would have excluded much of the oil and gas