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Stevens embodies a Western spirit that encompasses conflicting views of government. He represents a state where people go to escape their past and government restrictions to find their fortune. Yet Alaska is a state heavily dependent on federal money for its infrastructure.

Though it received an intense amount of scrutiny and was branded as an “incredible faux pas,” Michele Bachmann’s remark that she wouldn’t be opposed to drilling for oil in the Everglades isn’t going away. In fact, the GOP presidential candidate is going even further with her claims, arguing that only “radical environmentalists” would oppose drilling in the Everglades.

How bad is the Afghan insurgency? What will it take to roll it back? During his confirmation hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Eikenberry

“The justice of man is rot,” which is why the Tea Party has swerved clear of traditional left-wing Hollywood and made its own contribution to the pop-culture U.S. history canon.

Democrats face tough task of winning over moderates in an election year.

Disturbing news from along the border: Bodies of 72 people presumed to be trying to cross to the U.S. were found Tuesday in a mass grave in northern Mexico.

When Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) chose to relinquish his role in the Republican House leadership for the next session of Congress, the political punditry knew that

Politico’s spin-crunching machine busts a gear in this analysis of what Republicans are saying about Sen. Judd Gregg’s (R-N.H.) withdrawal of his nomination for

Republicans just successfully filibustered a defense authorization bill, killing an effort by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to attach the DREAM Act and a

With 99 days to the launch of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, the congressional pressure on the Bush administration to boycott the games over China’s many

While younger Republicans are hard at work trying to figure out how to make their party viable in a post-Bush political landscape, some older members of the

One interesting detail in this morning’s jobs report: The number of workers out of a job for more than six months declined by about 600,000. Moreover, the

WIth both parties’ national conventions now several weeks in the past, it’s safe to say we are back in the real world when it comes to polling data -- and a

President Obama’s scolding of the financial industry Thursday for awarding itself nearly $20 billion in bonuses during one of its worst years in decades pretty

Colorado Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette railed Thursday against the effort led by Colorado Republican Rep

I noticed her quote in The Washington Post this morning, but now the Nobel laureate and human rights activist has her own op-ed up at The Huffington Post. Her

Maj. Stefan F. Cook, who is refusing to be deployed because of his belief in conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama’s citizenship, is a member of, and

President Obama meeting school children last week. (White House)

The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions will provide six weeks less of unemployment benefits, up to 93 weeks, after June 12 because of the state’s declining unemployment rate. The state had provided 99 weeks of benefits since February thanks to federal assistance that kicked in when the state’s three-month unemployment rate was above 8.5 percent — unemployment was at 7.6 percent as of April 2011. Nationally, unemployment was at 9.1 percent as of May 2011, and only 54,000 jobs were added last month, down from three months of gains over 220,000

Speaking on Face the Nation on Sunday, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the House minority leader, said he would vote for the Obama administration’s proposal to let

Documents obtained by TWI reveal Iraqi linguists working for the U.S. military could be in peril under new disclosure rules fostered by the Status of Forces Agreement.