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With the news that Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) will be leaving his post to take the helm of the Senate Health, Education, Labor

The banks won’t give you a mortgage modification, but they will sell your house for you at a loss and keep the proceeds.

While judges must recuse themselves from cases where financial interests are at stake, members of Congress regularly invest in the very companies they regulate.

Tim Pawlenty ‘s presidential campaign will soon be receiving a cease-and-desist letter from ABC Sports, which believes its “Miracle on Ice” footage was improperly used in a recent television advertisement . “It’s a violation of our copyright and exclusive proprietary rights,” Louise Argianas, director of rights and clearances for ABC Sports told reporter Jennifer Jacobs of The Des Moines Register late Thursday. Pawlenty’s campaign launched the 30-second spot, which featured historic footage of an underdog USA hockey team battling against a more established USSR team in the 1980 Winter Olympics, in Iowa on Wednesday

Kate has a great piece today about some of the nation’s polluters embracing once-dreaded regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency in order to fend

The wealth disparity between white households and black and Hispanic households reached staggering and unprecedented proportions after the housing market

The sprawling greater-Denver metro region is in news-media crisis. In the information age, when there seems to be more and more to know, there is less and less being reported by the diminishing number of local mainstream news outlets here

Everyone is walking a thin line on immigration, but Republican politicians are in an especially tough position. Two-thirds of Republicans think the government

Looks like someone over at Arizona State University has the good sense to avoid an obvious and unnecessary P.R. disaster-in-the-making. From

Salon’s Rebecca Traister says cry me a freaking river to the commentators expressing pity for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in the wake of her painful

The California Dream Act, which would allow undocumented students who qualify for in-state tuition to apply for financial aid, has been passed by the state

I’ve been asking why the Senate Judiciary subcommittee holding the first congressional hearings on the torture memos this morning aren’t calling the Office of

Women are used to being under-represented in Congress: There are only 17 women in the U.S. Senate (out of 100) and 76 women in the U.S. House of Representatives

Just in time for Congress’ return to Washington to continue its health reform debate, California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced Thursday that he’s

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirms, as expected, the decision of a lower court to fine birther lawyer Orly Taitz $20,000 for her conduct in a lawsuit on

From Idaho Falls, Idaho, to the heart of Appalachia, conservative country folk have at least one thing in common: They want their National Public Radio. Sure, they like a little Rush once in awhile, even a little Glenn, but at the end of the day it’s just not enough. They also want their crop reports, their state legislative coverage and, yes, their CarTalk

It’s hard to see how this helps Rick Perry in a brutal Republican primary contest, but former President Bill Clinton on Monday defended Perry’s position on immigration and his support of the Texas Dream Act. From CNN:

There is a debate brewing in San Diego over how much schools should teach students about their rights in immigration raids and deportation proceedings, the San

Calculated Risk offers some nostalgic memories as the Dow Jones Industrials dipped below 10,000 today, for the first time in five years. March 29,

The Obama administration released a notice today specifying the terms of a new requirement that the operator of any new deepwater drilling project sign a