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As we wrote earlier this week, the most recent inspector general’s report on the politicization of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department

After a day of horrific violence in Iran, Mir Hussein Moussavi issued this statement to the opposition and to the world. (Via Andrew.) The most compelling

For the average worker who has lost her job since May 31, the cost of COBRA has tripled. And that’s likely to mean hundreds of thousands of families dropping out of health plans altogether.

President Obama’s announcement to refocus efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan is the result of a much-anticipated, 60-day review.

Why, what do we have here, in Eric Alterman’s excellent New Yorker piece about the Huffington Post? The survivors among the big newspapers will not be

The state of Arizona spent $442,000 in legal fees in May and June defending its SB 1070 lawsuit from a series of lawsuits, according to documents released

One state party lashes out with a sort of unfair hit in response to today’s RNC story -- it’s ending, for now, with consultant Erik Brown returning the money he

The breakdowns of the Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll that asked 2,400 people about where they believe the president was born are revealing. As Steve Benen and

Spanish prosecutors have decided to go ahead with a criminal investigation of the six senior lawyers -- including former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

Dear Tea Partiers, I’d like to address you in good faith for a moment. I noticed today you had some strong feelings about what you consider to be

President Obama made six recess appointments Wednesday, allowing officials to bypass Senate confirmation to serve for approximately one year. One of those

The caught-on-tape run-in with Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) is not his first unpleasant encounter. A coalition of Tea Party groups is urging sponsors to

As if there weren’t enough news going on already, Washington Mutual goes belly up in the largest bank failure in U.S. history, and JP Morgan Chase buys up all

The presidential exploratory campaign for former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, is announcing new additions to its Iowa and New Hampshire teams.

Gov. Susana Martinez, Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, and Rep.

This morning, I recapped the current legislative efforts to further extend unemployment benefits and aid the millions who have been out of work for more than

Yesterday I highlighted the departure of Gen. William Wallace from the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine command as an example of the end of the Rumsfeld era --

Republicans on the Wake County School Board hired retired Army Brigadier Gen. Anthony Tata to be the district’s superintendent, in part for his military

Could America be colorblind in 2028? Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-Wis.) okay with CIA assassinations, not okay with being kept in the dark. With a little more

From Dexter Filkins’ New York Times Magazine profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, which you really ought to read in its entirety: I asked General Flynn to

WorldNetDaily has put out a news release on its, uh, scoop about the forged Kenyan birth certificate that Orly Taitz has filed in court as proof of the