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Lehman Bros. CEO Richard Fuld, in a written statement for the House oversight committee, portrays himself as a victim of mortgage-market forces beyond his

Franklin Roosevelt knew the Great Depression offered an opportunity to do more than rescue a sick economy. It was a unique chance to pursue a higher purpose for government -- to make life less risky for future generations. If Roosevelt is the standard, Obama will be judged not just on how he deals with the economic crisis, but on how he uses it.

Line-item vetoes combined with a lack of leadership by Gov. Terry Branstad have resulted in unmanageable situations for Iowa families, the unemployed and prison inmates and staff, a state union leader asserted Wednesday afternoon while calling on lawmakers to demand a special session to deal with the ongoing fallout.

The fringe right-wing Website that became a lot less obscure this year is out with a Top-10 list marking its groundbreaking reports. Five (and a half if you

This week, the National Association of Realtors announced that home sales in July slumped 27 percent to a 15-year low. The annual pace of sales for existing

The same concerns being voiced at occupy rallies across the country can be heard at coffee shops, grocery stores and kitchen tables in rural Iowa, 4th Congressional District candidate Christie Vilsack says. “I think there’s this frustration with Congress not doing anything about the job issue and a lot of partisan fighting, and I certainly want to be a a problem solver, not a partisan fighter,” she said. Vilsack , an Ames Democrat and former first lady, said every family is having those conversations, and the occupy demonstrators are just expressing that in a more “vocal” way

Just off the phone with the offices of both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), where spokespeople

The EPA just issued a statement announcing that they have extended the review period for 79 surface mining permit applications in Appalachia. This means that

Fellow TPM alum, Kate Klonick has joined us to blog the remaking of the Department of Justice, including Eric Holder’s Senate confirmation hearings Thursday.

Scarce as the water is in West Texas today, the people charged with protecting western counties’ long-term supply can’t say for sure where it’s all going —

Faisal Shahzad, already guilty in the world court of Self-Defeating Terrorists, has pleaded guilty to a ten-count indictment on terrorism charges. According to

House lawmakers on Thursday easily passed legislation to eliminate billions of dollars in federal subsidies to private insurers offering low-rate student loans.

Ending increasing speculation about the fate of his controversial daily show at Fox News, Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that he was ending his three-year run. The show will go off the air “later this year” according to a release

Here’s a copy of Rep. Eliot Engel’s (D-N.Y.) legislation that would prevent BP from claiming a $10 billion tax deduction from the cost of responding to the

Lawmakers from at least 25 states have pledged to pass copycat laws to Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law. There are a number of reasons these plans might not

It’s hardly a surprise now when Republican leaders align themselves with the Tea Party movement, and the Values Voter Summit has been full of it. Rep. Mike

The U.S. Supreme Court today avoided striking down the Voting Rights Act by broadening the ability of political subdivisions to bail out of the requirement that

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has made no secret of his pro-business agenda since taking office in January. It may come as little surprise, then, that his campaign

In addition to taking jobs and increasing crime, anti-immigration groups have argued, immigrants are bad for their environment. For groups like the

Several months ago, I asked many Republicans if Sen. John McCain could win the election without the support of the party’s base. After all, the base --

The Hill reports that Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is asking leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works panel to delay any examinations of the Gulf oil

Jamie Kirchick interviews the incredibly resilient Republican pundit/daughter of the 2008 presidential candidate, who takes a swing at Joe the Plumber