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Sometimes, a picture --or graph-- really does say a thousand words. The State of the Union plotted the S&P 500 and Sen. John McCain’s performance in the

If the recent Supreme Court decisions denying prisoners the right to DNA evidence or allowing companies to dump toxic mining waste in public lakes were getting

I spent the morning at a lecture delivered by Aftab Sherpao, a former Pakistani interior minister whom Islamic extremists have recently been trying to

South Florida construction workers tell The Florida Independent that about 40 to 45 men, after weeks of being stiffed out of their wages, were paid with checks issued by Florida Shell Construction at the Northwest Gardens worksite on Thursday.

I just talked to Bay Buchanan, the co-chairman of Team America PAC and president of the American Cause, who is sticking by executive director (of both groups)

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Sept. 23, 2009. Just in case he wasn’t familiar

Days ago Roy Moore , a former Alabama chief justice known for his refusal to remove a Ten Commandments monument from court property, stood on the steps of the Iowa Capitol and voiced his opposition to same-sex marriage rights in the Hawkeye State. Now he’s considering a much longer Iowa engagement while he pursues the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

One of the final events of the Values Voter Summit was a Saturday breakout session on the new masculinity, a wide-ranging topic that one speaker used to

Despite the massive GOP party happening in Ames this weekend, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson has other places to be. Specifically, he’ll be riding his mountain bike along a 100-mile course in Colorado, billed as a “ race across the sky .” Of course, the announcement, made by his campaign Tuesday, comes as little surprise.

ROANOKE, Va. -- Barack Obama is like you, said Sen. Jim Webb at a stadium rally here Friday, directly rebutting smears and lies that have swirled around the

What you’ll end up doing is opening up the firehose to full blast, said one member of the intelligence community. They’re barely able to handle what they have right now.

The American economy was swept up in a rising tide of foreclosures this year as credit continued to ebb. These six players from the public and private sectors struggled to steer the country’s financial ship through treacherous waters.

This Benjamin Sarlin piece on right-wing delight at Al Franken’s Senate win in Minnesota is ... strange. Al Franken is a very tempting target because he is so

The battle in Colorado over the shape of next decade’s congressional districts continues.

Prediction time. When the definitive history of the Bush administration’s prosecution of the Iraq war is written, its attempt to force the Iraqi government to

Ben Domenech, a former Senate staffer, is hearing the speculation about the first-term senator from Oklahoma. Coburn has less than $60,000 on hand in his

This is the beginning of an assessment written by Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn, the senior-most intelligence adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, for the Center for a

One of the most important building blocks in the Bush administration’s apparatus of torture became public Thursday. An Aug. 1, 2002 memorandum from the

The Senate just confirmed Sonia Sotomayor as the newest justice on the United States Supreme Court by a vote of 68-31. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), presiding