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DeParle isn’t quite a household name, but as director of the White House Office of Health Reform, she’s been Obama’s point person on health care reform all

As expected, CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta says that he doesn’t think anyone in CIA should be prosecuted for torturing detainees since they were told by

In what The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim calls a big boost for climate change, Sens. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) and John McCain (D-Ariz.) today endorsed the

Previous GOP campaigns succeeded by stoking people’s “artificial differences,” as Jesse Jackson once put it. That old okey-doke can’t survive this much time or this much crisis.

Politico points readers to the economic analysis of Morgan Stanley’s Richard Berner: In a research note that’s been making the rounds of economics blogs this

Sure, sure, it’s the economy that people want to hear about. But, you know, it wouldn’t have hurt President Obama or the press corps to have talked about

The income gap -- the disparity in earnings between the wealthiest and poorest Americans -- increased to the highest recorded level in 2009, according to the

It’s been about a week since four bigoted members of Congress used a book published by the birthers at WorldNetDaily to call for a witchhunt of Muslims on

On the heels of new information about the number of non-criminals deported by the Department of Homeland Security’s Secure Communities program, the agency

<p>The Clinton campaign is very excited about a speech the New York senator is giving Friday in Philadelphia. She is going to unveil

Can’t figure out why an increasing number of Americans doubt the threat of climate change? Well, check out where they’re getting their information. From John

In an interview with The Mount Airy News, a newspaper based out of Mount Airy, N.C., (a small town best known as the inspiration for Andy Griffith’s

The Center for Competitive Politics is touting a new poll conducted at their request by Pulse Opinion Research, claiming that it refutes previous public

Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl accused the House of trying to take credit for border security after the chamber passed an identical version of the

In the post-9/11 era the GOP defined itself on national security and foreign policy.

Confirmation hearings covered Supreme Court nominee’s thoughts on foreign and international law.

The McCain campaign is making a play for the all-important K-5 demographic with a new picture book biography of the presumed GOP nominee, written by none other

The count was 61 to 37, with three GOP senators -- Arlen Specter (Pa.), Olympia Snowe (Me.) and Susan Collins (Me.) -- joining every Democrat in supporting the

Here’s something to keep in mind as congressional lawmakers wail about yesterday’s news that, at the current rate of spending, Medicare’s hospital fund won’t be

Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway (D) and Tea Party icon Rand Paul (R) are all tied up in their race for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat -- or at least

Source: Gfpeck, Flickr One day after 90 percent of union workers rejected the most recent contract offer by American Crystal Sugar, members of the region’s congressional delegations are calling for both parties to return to the bargaining table. About 1,300 union workers have been locked out of their jobs by American Crystal Sugar since Aug

Van Jones, President Obama’s green jobs czar and best-selling author of The Green Collar Economy, announced his resignation late Saturday. On the eve of