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Former FEMA Administrator Michael Brown (you know, the guy that became a walking metaphor for the Bush administration’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina) is

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said he would consider the financial regulatory reform bill over the July 4 Senate recess. He’s back, and he says he is a yes: I’ve

The Washington Independent is partnering with ProPublica to bring you more in-depth coverage of the Gulf oil spill claims process, and we need your

After two months of wrangling, Congress passed an extension of unemployment benefits earlier this month. But a number of other of vital safety-net programs

From The New York Times: The United States economy lost 345,000 jobs in May, the government reported on Friday, a sharp slowing in the pace of job losses that

The unexpectedly good job numbers -- only 11,000 lost in November, revisions that kicked overall unemployment down to 10 percent -- have been slotted into

Remember about a week ago when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said he would let the incoming Obama administration decide how to spend the remaining half of

Here’s Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who’s leading the lonely congressional push for single-payer health care, telling MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Thursday that,

Rory Stewart, the Afghanistan-war skeptic who heads the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard, has one advantage over his fellow witnesses at this

This week, Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Edward DeMarco, the head of the

Martin Resendiz, the Mayor of Sunland Park, a community of around 15,000 people near Las Cruces, admitted to signing contracts with a San Diego–based parking design firm while drunk.

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement slates more people for deportation, a new analysis from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse

The Washington Post opinion columnist Ruth Marcus has a biting critique today of how Washington’s policy makers -- both Democrats and Republicans; both in the

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has decided to delay a procedural vote on a bill to encourage the development of electric and natural gas

In a ruling that slid in quietly under the news radar, a federal court of appeals ruled late last Friday that the government can lawfully use immigration

Chris Cillizza and Paul Kane report that the junior senator from Nevada, the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, will admit that he had an

Via The Washington Post, the office of Sen. Tom Coburn yesterday denied that the Oklahoma Republican told housemate Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) to pay millions of

Jeffrey Kaye at Truthout has a good piece today on the suicide -- or murder? -- of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi in

Michigan State University researchers have developed a brand new version of the internal combustion engine they say could revolutionize the hybrid vehicle.

Here in Washington, D.C., public transportation’s pretty good -- you can get basically anywhere you need to go by Metro or bus. But the vast majority of the

On Friday, the government will release the September jobs report, and some economists are bracing for the worst: a decrease in overall private employment and an

Via Liz Mair, a site opposed to the candidacy for Republican National Committee chair of former Michigan GOP chair Saul Anuzis has emerged, called

Obama administration officials are heading down to the Gulf tomorrow to oversee the ongoing recovery efforts there. The officials will stop in at the Delta