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The new Rutgers-Eagleton poll for New Jersey’s gubernatorial race piles more bad news onto the campaign of Republican candidate Chris Christie, seen just a few

The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a federal lawsuit today against Gov. Rick Perry, questioning the constitutionality of his involvement in The

CompuCredit, an Atlanta subprime lender that specializes in high-rate credit cards, payday loans, auto financing and debt collection, is part of the country’s leading coalition on financial literacy.

The question has come up a lot lately, particularly since oral arguments last week in Jose Padilla’s lawsuit against John Yoo made clear that the federal judge

In a major victory for Mohammed Jawad and the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented him, Jawad today returned home to Afghanistan. That means he’s

Former Sen. Norm Coleman stopped to talk with Pajamas Media at last weekend’s True the Vote conference hosted by the King Street Patriots in Houston

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today (pdf) that four British men who say they were tortured while imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay have no

Not sitting Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), as Palin made clear in a Facebook message to her supporters this morning that began: Contested primaries are so

The GOP pins its electoral hopes on business executives. Specter claims he’s struck a deal with Reid to become next in line to chair Judiciary. Democrats

Thirty Senate Democrats today urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to include a public insurance option in the bill the Democrats bring to the

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), the self-described fire breathing liberal congressman, is going to announce his resignation from Congress tomorrow morning,

The conference report to next fiscal year’s defense appropriations bill includes a provision long -- and I mean long -- sought by Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.): a

The question of whether the United States’ unemployment is structural (due to some industries getting bigger and others shrinking, not ameliorated much by

Immigrants rights groups promised to mobilize against Republicans who helped block reform efforts, and they threw their first punch today with a $300,000 ad buy

President Obama today made official what had been leaked over the weekend: That the viability plans submitted last month by Chrysler and General Motors don’t go

New data show that in just under three decades, the after-tax income for the top one percent of earners rose by 281 percent, compared with 25 percent for the middle quintile and 16 percent for the bottom fifth.

Yesterday we mentioned that Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Finance Committee and a fierce opponent of public health plans, had left

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative – a ten-state experiment in crafting a U.S. cap-and-trade program – will mark its one-year anniversary on Sept. 25.

This morning, the outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said that planned payroll cuts were 38,810 in May -- roughly the same level as

In a sign of campaign spending spending to come in the post- Citizens United era, Super PACs are already pouring money into Florida for attack ads.

Josh Kraushaar catches a surprising poll in the 2010 primary for U.S. Senate in Kentucky. In the GOP race, Rand Paul, the son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and a