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Whether it’s intellectual honesty or another case of a liberal refusing to take his own side in an argument, yesterday at the United Nations, several senior

Dean Baker thinks so. In a talk at the DC bookstore Politics and Prose last night, the progressive economist suggested that we could save billions on Medicare

President George W. Bush’s former aide and adviser, Karl Rove, has reportedly been instructed to ignore another congressional subpoena, this one issued earlier

Late on Friday, after some of us had long since packed up our computers, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco ruled that Jose Padilla, the

It seems paradoxical: The wealthy pay higher income taxes than low- and middle-income Americans. But they also often pay lower effective tax rates than their

This weekend, the nation’s capital will be host to many celebrations of the late Martin Luther King, Jr., who 48 years ago led a policy-changing civil rights

This morning, Standard & Poor’s released the latest update of the Case-Shiller home price index, considered the best measure of national housing prices. The

The California congressional delegation has asked the Obama administration to choose their state as the location of a new United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

An average of 1,200 people are questioned by private security at Bloomington’s Mall of America each year, with security sometimes forwarding names to the FBI for such innocuous activity as taking photos or acting nervous after being approached by guards. The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and NPR News Investigations released a report on the private mall’s security program Wednesday, illuminating practices that some said violates civil rights

Bill Kristol has a post up at The Weekly Standard’s blog about what conservatives ought to do about President Obama and Iran: There have been very good grounds

With Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at his side, Sen. John McCain just brought up the infamous Bridge to Nowhere for the first time in quite a while at a town-hall

Florida Senate Majority Leader Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando (left) and state Sen. Joe Negron, R-Palm City (Pic via flsenate.gov) During a committee hearing yesterday, GOP members expressed outrage with the federal government for its request that the state include a “medical loss ratio” in its Medicaid Reform Pilot. The committee meeting was chaired by state Sen

... you might see your dollars sucked into a defense fund for a lawsuit that has a bit less to do with control of the Senate than the former senator’s

The American Petroleum Institute, the country’s most powerful oil and gas trade group, announced today that it is making publicly available online for the first

As the social media-sparked Bank Transfer Day approaches, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) reports that over 650,000 people have joined credit unions in the last four weeks. In Colorado, the group reports 14,000 new accounts and $100 million in new deposits

Harmful, smog-causing emissions from the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, should be curtailed as swiftly as possible by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), conservation groups argued at an EPA meeting in Denver on Wednesday. “Addressing air emissions from fracking operations is essential,’’ National Wildlife Federation regional outreach coordinator David Ellenberger said in a release

Five Republican presidential hopefuls have signed a pledge promising to ”not just check off the pro-life box but show true pro-life leadership if elected president.” Only three of those asked to sign — former Massachusetts Gov.

With a GOP-controlled House on the horizon, I’ve been looking at a few policy proposals made by conservatives and pro-enforcement groups to see which ideas

The Anchorage Daily News reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) asked President George W. Bush last month to pardon her former counterpart in the U.S.

Not content with the right-wing pundits’ method of evaluating Judge Sonia Sotomayor by hurling epithets and baseless accusations against her, Tom Goldstein, the

Polls and politicians agree that something needs to be done to reform immigration at the federal level, but Democrats can’t seem to agree on the right way

A bipartisan federal delegation comprised of both Iowa and Illinois lawmakers wants answers on the rumored relocation of a Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center away from the Rock Island Arsenal as a budget-cutting measure. U.S. Sens

The specter of job loss is being used by both sides in the debate over Ohio’s Senate Bill 5, the controversial law designed to limit collective bargaining