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Primary among the proposals in the Republicans’ Pledge to America is the promise to cut spending, slash taxes and shrink the government to restore the United

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Word from Wisconsin late last night is that Senate Republicans were able to strip the state’s infamous collective bargaining bill of certain fiscal details. The move allowed them to pass the bill with or without absent Senate Democrats. The legislature has now barred all press from the floor of the Capitol building. For the latest from Madison, The Uptake has streaming video from outside the Capitol.

For the past year, the neoconservative conception of democracy promotion and human rights -- hollow elections; wars waged under the pretext of do-gooderism;

The office of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has sent around a document preemptively attacking a new stimulus bill. This objection is perfectly in line with

Jim Tedisco, the Republican candidate in New York’s 20th Congressional District, has finally conceded defeat to Democrat Scott Murphy. This seems like a good

The hearing is wrapping up. Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) laments that some of the Republican senators have left thinking they wouldn’t get a chance to ask questions.

The Wall Street Journal reports that White House Counsel Greg Craig’s job is in trouble. Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina tells the paper’s Evan Perez that

As a postscript to my Richard Holbrooke piece, a weird exchange came last night at Amb. Holbrooke’s appearance before the Council on Foreign Relations when a

Sen. Barack Obama just dashed past his Republican opponent in today’s Washington Post/ABC poll, grabbing what The Post calls his first clear lead of the

Long before the financial crisis, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were synonymous with moral hazard in the minds and classrooms of most economists. Everyone

While we’re on the topic of that $80 billion deal struck between Democratic leaders and the nation’s drug makers, it’s worth clarifying how it came to be. Many

The Federal Reserve is considering some aggressive steps to unlock lending, including buying large amounts of unsecured short-term debt, The New York Times says

After weeks of sunny relations with city officials and police, the Occupy Dallas movement saw its first arrests Monday, when 24 protesters were cuffed and

Grover Norquist’s testimony before the Republican Working Committee on Economic Recovery doesn’t travel far from the documents he passed out or his long record

Tickets are now on sale for the first National Tea Party Convention, which will be held February 4-6 in Nashville. It won’t be cheap. An all-access ticket costs

The group that is coordinating an effort to repeal Michigan’s Emergency Manager law has launched an online documentary titled Dictators Over Communities of Color: Coming to a Town Near You .

It’s the first rule of congressional lawmaking: Never miss an opportunity to grab everything you can for your constituents, even if it comes at the expense of

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is scheduled to hold a press conference today to decry the Democrats’ stimulus package and the trillions of

A project to bring high-speed broadband Internet services to rural North Florida, funded with stimulus dollars , seems to have stalled. The North Florida Herald reported Thursday that “in February of 2010, residents of rural areas in North Florida, including Gilchrist and Columbia counties, were promised a reliable high speed broadband network within three years, thanks to a $30 million grant that was part of President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan.” The Herald continues: “Fast forward a year-and-a-half and those promises are, if not in jeopardy, then seriously behind schedule” and have “been plagued by problems, culminating most recently in the grant money being frozen by the federal government.” The North Florida Broadband Authority is a government entity established specifically for the purpose of bringing broadband services to the region. According to recovery.gov, as of June 30, less than 50 precent of the North Florida project had been completed. The Authority would operate much like an independent utility, similar to a water, sewer or electrical provider, focused on creating an Internet broadband network in 15 north Florida counties that would “provide capacity and reach to cover more than 154,000 households, and 26,893 businesses” and “provide the potential to connect to 1,573 critical facilities, and 265 health care entities, according to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.” The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported in May that the Florida Rural Broadband Alliance, also created to provide wireless broadband access to rural areas, “had spent about $4 million of its $24 million through March.” The Florida Rural Broadband Alliance was formed in March 2010 by two nonprofit economic development corporations – Florida’s Heartland REDI (Regional Economic Development Initiative) in south central Florida, and Opportunity Florida in northwest Florida.