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PORTLAND, MAINE -- This morning, after spending some quality time in the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, with the former president and First Father

According to Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo, Republicans and -- new development here -- Democrats are getting behind the idea of slowly raising the

This morning, the Labor Department released an incrementally improved report on initial jobless claims. The number of Americans filing fell for the third

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), interviewed today in The Washington Post, points to the central reason that a health reform bill that hits the floor with a

Republicans won an historic number of Congressional seats in the midterm election just six months ago. Tonight Fox News is hosting the first 2012 GOP presidential primary election debate and it will feature something like the weakest early lineup of candidates in modern memory.

Ben Smith points us to the lawsuit that original Barack Obama Birther Phil Berg has filed against ... well, not everyone in the movement, but pretty close.

That’s the word coming from Capitol Hill, where Democratic leaders are wary that Republicans would stall a formal conference, thus delaying passage of the

NEW YORK -- Despite a cold and steady rain, the 9/11 Never Forget Coalition managed to attract a few hundred people to Foley Square in downtown Manhattan today

Of the $1.9 billion worth of vouchers submitted by car dealers under the Cash for Clunkers program, the Department of Transportation has sent payments

This is the most stunning poll I’ve seen from Iraq since the war began -- not just because so many Iraqis think things are improving, but because the wide

One of the early lights of the national security/foreign policy blogosphere, Marc Lynch, is the latest scholar to sign up with the Center for a New American

“This ‘legally obligated’ stuff is a lot of nonsense,” says one expert on the Wall Street bailout.

<p>Another possible casualty of the Democratic presidential marathon: the Iowa caucuses. John Deeth of Iowa Independent <a title="explains"

It happens all the time. A thirsty consumer grabs a cup of coffee with a debit card, unknowingly exceeds the available balance, and gets smacked with a $30 fee for the $3 purchase.

No date has been set, but congressional leaders are already vowing to hold hearings on the circumstances leading up to Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine

President Obama is set to deliver a speech to a joint session of Congress Thursday night in which he will present a proposal to boost the economy and create jobs. This proposal will apparently include a call for another extension of federal unemployment benefits.

The National Women’s Law Center recently released a report that lists all statewide measures prohibiting abortion coverage in state health care exchanges. # Florida joined Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia this year in enacting such legislation. The report shows that many of the bills have “narrow exceptions for women’s health” and have, in effect, taken health benefits away from women

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Nebraska Gov

In five minutes, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska.) announced she would skip the 2010 gubernatorial race, resign her own office at the end of July (her term is up

The Obama administration’s Detention Policy Task Force has issued a preliminary report recommending that Guantanamo Bay detainees be tried in federal court for

Iowa Senate District 18 Democratic candidate Liz Mathis raked in $64,306 between Oct. 15 and Nov.