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Just when journalists were busy writing the obituaries for Sarah Palin’s ability to play kingmaker, an obscure Palin-backed GOP challenger named Joe Miller

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) went hunting for Blair to say that the Bush administration didn’t pressure intelligence analysts ahead of the Iraq WMD National

These banks are way too involved in the economy, and they have been way too involved in protesting this bill, one advocate said.

After toxic gasses initially turned them away, two teams of inspectors have re-entered the Upper Big Branch mine this afternoon to begin their investigation

Alex Conant, who until March was the spokesman for the Republican National Committee, has made the smooth transition into insightful conservative punditry. He’s

Even before Rep. Charles Djou (R-Hawaii) was sworn in Tuesday, less than a week after his special election victory against a pair of feuding Democrats, pundits

Former Gov.

Members of the Republican leadership in the Minnesota Senate have introduced legislation to ban state funding for abortions, just weeks after saying that creating jobs and fixing the budget deficit would be the party’s top priorities.

Mike Konczal, a writer for the Atlantic, makes a very prescient statement on his blog about the difficult time the unemployed have had in getting their interests taken as seriously as the interests of the wealthy and powerful: We just had to bribe the top 3% with massive tax cuts for the next two years in order to keep unemployment insurance extensions in place for another year. Unemployment benefit extension are a net job creator and should have been a no-brainer, but it couldn’t pass without a massive bribe

In making its decision to expand offshore drilling earlier this year (before the massive oil spill in the Gulf), the Obama administration did not work closely

The number-one factor fueling high school dropouts across the country is pregnancy and parenthood, a problem Colorado Congressman Jared Polis hopes to address by reintroducing his Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act . He pitched for the bill Thursday at Denver’s Florence Crittenton High School , a one-of-a-kind facility that provides the kind of “wraparound services” like daycare and counseling that make it possible for young parents to stay in school. Polis says that if the country is going to address the serious social and economic problems that come of dropouts, than providing support for parenting students is the best way to begin.

Democrats and Republicans reached an 11th-hour deal on the federal budget tonight, trimming more than $38 billion and averting a looming shutdown of the government. Colorado’s senior Sen

Snowe gets a nice reward for her yea vote. Here’s what she’s likely to ask for. Dole and other pro-health reform Republicans stand to profit from their

Aztec, N.M., maintains it is no “sanctuary,” and for months has led a campaign to shed the designation.

TPM has a great roundup today of the escalating Republican argument that closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility could be all but impossible because --

Efforts to make an HIV vaccine were dealt a severe blow in September when a 3,000-person trial of a Merck vaccine failed. An analysis later showed that that not

Just hours after Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced that he’d whip aggressively for the public option if the House includes it in its reconciliation bill,

Today’s Washington Post notes a new report from the Project on Government Oversight detailing the problems faced by Inspectors General, the chief auditing

One speaker at last year’s Telluride Mountainfilm Festival was convicted in March of federal felonies. But before his sentencing in June, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be back again this year to talk about his disruption of federal gas leasing in Utah. Not so, Greg Mortenson.

Congress is back, and Karen DeYoung has a good section in her Washington Post story on the administration’s Afghanistan choices about what that means: The