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The fervor drawn from the Occupy Wall Street protests, which began about two weeks ago in New York City, has elicited plans for spin-off protests in Texas and

The Family Leader, an Iowa religious right group that has been active in GOP caucuses of that state, backtracked on a pledge the group released last week that asked candidates to vow to oppose pornography and same-sex marriage. The pledge contained a controversial statement about slavery, and over the weekend, the Family Leader removed that reference

She doesn’t mention that Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) called her out for the Government Printing Office’s publication of hundreds of civilian nuclear sites, but House

Is Bill Ayers the new Kevin Bacon? It turns out that many political figures have tangential links to Ayers, including both major parties’ presidential

With the Senate gearing up to consider unemployment insurance extension legislation next week, the National Employment Law Project has a useful chart breaking

Naturally, it’s beneath stuff about 11 people dying in a Mosul suicide bombing, but still: Egypt is due to reopen its embassy in Baghdad, closed since

Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara Boxer faces an even tougher climate than in May 2008 when the Warner-Lieberman climate bill failed.

Economists say the White House has been way too meek in tackling the racial disparities in the country’s unemployment rates.

The Department of Justice announced Monday that it would release one Yemeni detainee from Guantanamo Bay -- a 38-year-old doctor picked up in Afghanistan and

WorldNetDaily has been crowing about (and soliciting donations for) Where’s the Birth Certificate? anti-Obama billboards for months, but I hadn’t actually

The following is Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-Calif.) response to today’s California Supreme Court decision upholding the state’s recently renewed ban on same-sex

A piece of bad economic news: Industrial production dropped unexpectedly in September: Output at factories, mines and utilities fell 0.2 percent, the first

In a surprising turn of events, of the four major-party candidates, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is perhaps most accessible to the media. According to The Page,

I should have seen this yesterday, but Foreign Policy conducted an interview with Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the Paris-based external spokesman for Mir Hussein

In an email to supporters on Monday evening, the Minnesota Family Council (MFC) urged voters to consider incumbent Anoka-Hennepin School Board members Marci Anderson and Tom Heidemann because they support a district policy that limits discussion of LGBT issues in district schools. The policy, often dubbed the neutrality policy, is at the center of a nationwide discussion about suicide and anti-LGBT bullying and the subject of a lawsuit by six district students and their families. The family council wrote that this is a “critical election” for the board.

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) — a strong backer of funding for the Afghan war — is among the politicians that were illegally targeted by a U.S. Army psy-ops unit at Camp Eggers in Kabul last year, according to a new report

Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling sent out some explanatory tweets last night about a coming survey of South Carolina voters, asking them what they thought of

A concentrated oil burn in the Gulf of Mexico, conducted in May 2010 (Pic by Deepwater Horizon Response, via Flickr) Though BP has continued to deny that any of its gulf wells are leaking oil, a large-scale oil slick reported in the area is worrying Gulf Coast watchdogs. Concerns abound that the oil could spell trouble for area fisheries, especially since reports of dead dolphins have persisted in recent days. Since Tropical Storm Lee recently made landfall in the Gulf Coast region, tar balls have started washing up on the shores of Louisiana all the way to Florida

Via ThinkProgress, this hot new New York Review of Books piece by Specter couldn’t possibly go over well with the GOP caucus: First, I intend to introduce

Reforming faculty tenure remains a major plank in many plans for the future of Texas’ public universities, from the seven breakthrough solutions backed, until