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David Lazarus at The Los Angeles Times asks a question I’ve been wondering about myself: What are some credit card companies thinking? Lazarus points

A group of prominent economists and historians -- including Nobel Prize-winner Joe Stiglitz and Laura Tyson, the head of the Council of Economic Advisers in the

Researchers at the progressive group One Wisconsin Now found that, on August 17, the day after the last of the recall elections in the state forced by Democrats aghast at Walker’s politics, Koch Industries bought up at least three anti-Koch domains: StopKoch.com, StopKochIndustries.com, and AntiKoch.com.

Last year, the Democratic Congress enthusiastically acquiesced to President George W. Bush’s insistence on carving out individualized suspicion and other

Kenneth Tomlinson at Human Events, which ran the Evans-Novak Report until it was ended last year, confirms that the conservative reporter Robert Novak has died

Medicare Advantage is at the forefront of congressional bickering. Again. Indeed, a large chunk of yesterday’s health reform debate in the Senate Finance

In Denver last week to plug his memoir and rally occupiers, filmmaker Michael Moore made one thing perfectly clear: He has not let becoming a one-percenter change his worldview. Not even a little. In a nearly 90-minute speech at CU Denver , Moore by turns excoriated the country for turning its back on its young and let those same young people know that their turn to run the country is at hand.

Although he’s no longer in the race, the presidential campaign of former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty disclosed that it’s still mired deep in debt this week. The debts reported on the campaign’s quarterly disclosure officially sit at $453,841, with the quarter closing at the end of September

Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog reminds us that today is the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision, Boumediene v. Bush, which confirmed

At last count, seven states have cut funding for reproductive services administered by Planned Parenthood, whose reputation has taken a beating from

As part of its The Day Before event on climate and national security, the nonpartisan national security think tank the American Security Project released a new

Speaking a George Bush Institute conference in Dallas, California’s recent losing GOP candidate for governor Meg Whitman said the GOP has it all wrong on immigration–or at least has the language wrong. She told blogger Ruben Navarette, Jr., who writes at pajamasmedia.com , that demonizing Latinos is not the way to go if Republicans want to lead on the issue.

Breaking news from Reuters: An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in

As the bill heads to conference committee, consumer advocates have identified loopholes and weak points where a merged bill could be watered down.

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) announced today that he will vote against Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan when she comes up for a vote by the full Senate the

After bloggers criticized Brookings’ Michael O’Hanlon for cooking up his own private benchmarks for Iraqi political progress, he elaborated on Brookings’

That was quite an image, seeing Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai announce that he’ll accept a runoff election. Well, not just that, but seeing him flanked by

TransCanada, owners of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, have agreed to reroute the pipeline to avoid the Nebraska Sandhills, a particularly sensitive ecosystem.

Ambassador Peter Galbraith, recently sacked from the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan over his rejection of the mission’s stance on fraud in the Afghan

Protesters demonstrate against Arizona S.B. 1070 (Pic by ProgressOhio, via Flickr ) Former Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce — one of the most recognized architects of that state’s immigration enforcement law S.B

Here’s an interesting choice of analogy from Matt Mackowiak’s op-ed in The Austin American-Statesman, promoting the Tea Parties. The coming revolution is akin