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Jonah Goldberg has some blunt ruminations about how much better a communicator President Obama is than former President George W. Bush. I think this is just

The credit crunch is hitting people right where it hurts: More consumers are paying their credit card bills late, and credit card companies are becoming

If Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s message to the AIPAC conference was one of reconciliation with Israel while nudging it toward the peace process,

With Judge Timothy Black of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio expected to deliver a ruling on the Susan B. Anthony List’s request for a

Republicans take solace in numbers of a(n occasionally) conservative pollster.

I’m reporting out something unrelated, so I’ve almost missed this, but apparently President Obama has made a major error in not going to Germany for the 20th

Big News! National security reporter Spencer Ackerman delivers his fifth piece today in his series on the rise of the counterinsurgents. After an exclusive

Shane Harris of National Journal has a good, short piece about John Brennan’s withdrawal from consideration for CIA director. (Unfortunately, it’s behind NJ’s

Despite assurances from government officials that the recession is gradually loosening its grip on the U.S., statistics released today by Zillow, Inc. paint a

They started popping up in Houston. But when a billboard appeared in Austin, featuring a smiling African-American child and the words The most dangerous place

Last year, the state of Florida suffered through a round of austere budgets cuts, which largely fell on state health programs and education. Now, the News Service of Florida is reporting that this upcoming budget will also face a “significant” revenue shortfall — requiring the state to cut spending once more

A key subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow in an attempt to sort out varying accounts of the amount of oil that

It’s earnings week -- and the Federal Reserve system is offering up details on its 2009 balance sheet. The bank notes that though the total value of its

The watering down of the proposal for a new consumer financial protection agency continues, with the latest victim the end of vanilla option. Treasury Secretary

Sen. Barack Obama briefly discussed his grandmother while calling voters during a campaign stop Monday night, but he did not mention that she died. From the

Greg Sargent has the scoop: Senator Harry Reid’s office says that if a final decision is made to pass health reform via reconciliation, the Majority Leader