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At a forum sponsored by the George Washington University to be broadcast tomorrow on CNN’s new Christiane Amanpour program, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham

My pseudonymous friend Charlie has been AWOL from her perch at Abu Muqawama for so long that I thought Undersecretary of Defense for Policy-designate Michele

Gov. Mark Dayton addressed reporters and the state of Minnesota on Monday , detailing his efforts to resolve the state’s budget and end the government shutdown

The White House sent out a press release last night cataloging statements of praise by leaders in various fields for President Obama’s decision, announced

A mysterious YouTube member named, conveniently, megwhitmanonvanjones, has uploaded a May 2009 San Francisco Chronicle video of 2010 GOP California

North Carolina state Sen. James Forrester, of Gaston County, died Monday at the age of 74. Forrester was the lead author of a constitutional amendment that, if

The U.S. District Court for Western Michigan has issued an order in the civil lawsuit against a radical gay rights group that disrupted a Lansing church service in 2008. The court issued the order Monday against members of both the Bash Back! Lansing group and the national affiliate

This morning, the White House released an updated report on the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the stimulus bill passed in February 2009.

Andrew Ross Sorkin takes a shot at explaining why we have to pay those AIG bonuses today in The New York Times. Sorkin explains that he knows it’s not a popular

Sen. John McCain, who has locked up the GOP nomination, was chased down in the parking lot of a Phoenix shopping mall today and persuaded to remove his

The Texas Republican Party unveiled its new platform today and it contains some very far-right provisions, to say the least. Media Matters has the full details,

More end zone dancing from the Republican National Committee chairman: “Tonight, Chris Christie exceeded all expectations by charging to victory in the heart

On today’s call with reporters, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele took credit for the RNC’s response to a new Democratic National Committee

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, which is conducting its own investigation into the CIA and torture,

In his quick-turnaround book Right Now, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is notably less kind to former House candidate Dede Scozzafava

Ohio Governor John Kasich told reporters on Monday he was glad the fuss surrounding the veto referendum to repeal Senate Bill 5 had kept the pressure off the

It may come a surprise to some that the government has tougher safety standards for Cocoa Puffs than for Marlboros, but under current law, the Food and Drug

In his third GOP presidential debate Gov. Rick Perry had a way of fumbling and tripping over words. But it was a familiar issue, and perhaps the most articulate

The Michigan Messenger reports on a state legislature hearing about a proposal to relocate Guantanamo Bay detainees to a Standish, Mich., maximum-security

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night, discussing the GOP’s mistaken claims -- or, as Spencer puts it, simply lying -- on the

“They flew all the way here just to basically say, ‘We’re going back on our word,’” said an attorney briefed on the Tuesday meeting. “The whole entire thing is kind of a puppet show.”