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The Obama administration could have just let this one go. U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates’ April 2 ruling that three detainees -- two from Yemen, one

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Last year’s expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program was the legislative high point of the last decade, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the

As dynamic as Sen. Barack Obama is seen in the popular imagination, what has gotten him here today -- 15 points ahead of Sen. John McCain in the latest Pew poll -- is his and his organization’s ability to methodically achieve one goal, and then another.

Abu Muqawama, reading a story from The Washington Post about the cost overruns of the Army’s/SAIC’s/Boeing’s Future Combat Systems, remarks: SAIC’s executive

With a new administration, dozens of new members of Congress, billions of dollars in stimulus spending up for grabs, and multiple national crises, 2009 is

Democratic leaders in Iowa say the occupy movement generally lines up with their party’s values, but both those leaders and people in the movement are wary of any connection between the two. Hugh Espey, executive director of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement , said he believes Democrats will try to co-opt the movement.

Responding to that McClatchy-Ipsos poll, Rush Limbaugh cracks wise: They have done a national poll, and they have found that about a third of the American

Rasmussen Reports has an already-Drudged poll on the 2012 presidential election, which finds former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) tying Barack Obama and soon-to-be

Siun at Firedoglake -- where, full disclosure, my personal blog is hosted -- rounds up a series of Iraqi news reports suggesting that shoe-throwing journalist

Gallup is out today with a poll that puts support for a new law that would make it easier for labor unions to organize workers at 53 percent, to only 39

This resignation letter in The New York Times today from an AIG executive in the financial products unit explaining the bonus controversy from his point of view

Here’s an insightful observation from Harper’s Scott Horton today about Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s latest defense of the academic freedom of John

In this the first week of National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, the U.S. Department of Education is introducing new guidelines for how

Richard Holbrooke, a longtime diplomat, has reconfigured the State Department’s South and Central Asia bureau.

At the Code Red rally today, I did the reporting for this post. When I returned to the office, I fired off a 3:41 email to Jane Hamsher. Hamsher did

Mary Ann Akers works the Too Much Information beat at the Media Research Center’s annual awards dinner, reporting that Samuel Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher

Testimony from any interrogator about personal involvement in detainee abuse on behalf of an abused detainee will be a milestone for the military commissions.

Sen. Barack Obama’s latest TV ad attacks his GOP rival for raising taxes on health care, based on a sharp exchange from the VP debate. It’s an unconventional

What does National Public Radio have in common with Planned Parenthood? They’re both national organizations, both often despised by the right wing, both

That’s according to Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), one of the three Republicans on the Hill who backed the stimulus package, according to Ryan Grim. Even those