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The drumbeat for stricter immigration enforcement sounds like a war chant to some. In an editorial published Thursday, The Christian Science Monitor opines that enforcement-first policies could drive America’s small family farms out of business. From the Monitor: Enforcement-only immigration policies will further devastate immigrant communities, ravage labor-intensive agriculture, and take away countless jobs beyond the farm sector.

It’s Time for the US to Declare Victory and Go Home As the old saying goes, “guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” Since the signing of

With only a handful of exceptions, legislators voted along party lines on Saturday night’s House vote to put a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage on the ballot next fall . Republican Rep

After decades of abetment, Congress is watching with more critical eyes.

According to a Gallup survey of 170,000 adults nationwide, Minnesota ranks 13th in the nation for Democratic advantage just behind New Jersey and ahead of

<p>Via <a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/01/a-leading-gener.html">Danger Room’s Noah Shachtman</a>, Lt. General William

Josh Rogin has a great piece about the differences between Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the

I didn’t see this at yesterday’s big Blackwater hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee, but another reporter friend watched this happen. Code Pink, the

In case you missed it, TWI’s David Weigel was back on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night, talking about the mainstreaming of the birther movement

The lightning round begins: Who is everyone’s favorite Republican president? Reagan. Reagan. Reagan. Reagan. Reagan. And finally, from Ken Blackwell: Ronald

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) told reporters this morning that he will push the state legislature to allow a 2010 special election to replace the late Sen.

<p>Our amazing reporter Holly Yeager told me that I had better check out Dick Cheney’s CPAC speech today, and she didn’t disappoint. Armed with Holly’s

Treasury and the FDIC put together a plan to offer as many as 3 million homeowners lower loan payments for at least five years. Homeowners, at the center of the economic crisis, may get their turn at a helping hand from government. But can they get the help they really need?

To the dismay of many liberal lawmakers, the Senate Finance Committee famously excluded a public option from its health reform bill, instead proposing the

I don’t know if former Vice President Dick Cheney just misses being in the spotlight, or if he actually believes the stuff he spews on television these days,

Since my piece on the intensifying battle over preventive detention was published, Ken Gude from the Center for American Progress wrote to point out an

Since George W. Bush took office, commercial banks have more than doubled their annual federal lobbying budgets, to great effect. In addition to securing a

Since writing my last post, I received this from Tracy Schmaler at the Justice Department, responding to my earlier request for comment on the habeas corpus

News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, gave a cool $1 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this summer, according to Politico’s Ben Smith. When earlier

Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty thinks he has what it takes to steal the youth vote away from President Barack Obama , but Democrats are hitting back

The Associated Press reports that 27-year-old Justin Travis and 28-year-old Michael Carter were both killed after a roof collapsed Wednesday night at the

David M. Herszenhorn at The New York Times points out a curious thing happening in the midst of the debate over student lending reform: Although the plan to