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Greg Sargent reports that the GOP may yet come up with a way to satisfy the Tea Party’s demands for representation among the Republican leadership. How? By

Josh Gerstein reports on a speech Attorney General Eric Holder gave today: Lawyers who accept professional responsibility to protect the rule of law and the

The new Quinnipiac Poll has Marco Rubio, the conservative Republican who’s ridden a wave of good press in his Senate campaign against Gov. Charlie Crist

Tom Prichard, president of the Minnesota Family Council, defended his organization’s “legislative manual” in an interview with National Public Radio on Wednesday. The manual asserted that gays and lesbians are more likely to practice sex with animals and children and that they enjoy eating human excrement .

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep.

Evidently out of patience with attacks on the Obama administration for reading would-be Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights, John

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. President Obama will deliver his major health care speech to Congress at 8 p.m. tonight -- and the

GOP presidential candidate and former U.S. Sen

Cornell economist Michael Lovenheim has an amazing study of the impact of housing wealth on college affordability and attendance (PDF). From the

Chairman of a House Financial Services subcommittee is pushing a loophole-riddled bill that would allow payday lenders, who are his top campaign contributors, to charge annual interest rates of nearly 400 percent.

You know what Tom Donnelly, an American Enterprise Institute defense analyst, didn’t like about President Obama’s Iraq speech? Well, the substance of

As of Sunday evening, the number of Tomahawk missiles dropped by NATO forces -- mainly from the U.S. thus far -- on Libya stands at 124, according to Vice Adm.

Here’s a tale that could only have happened in this era when rampant A.D.D. has shrunk the news cycle to four minutes. Earlier this week, reports

Michael Isikoff reports: The federal judge who helped draft Justice Department memos on torture has set up a legal defense fund to pay the costs of defending

Attempting to fix a problem that his panel helped create, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) will introduce legislation today to prevent

A new Democratic Super PAC has spent more than $43,000 on ads critical of Republican U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack since late April, according to a Minnesota Independent search of federal disclosure filings.

Republicans hone in on ways to blame the president and the majority party for the AIG bonus scandal.

So reports The Hill, indicating that the conservative-leaning Blue Dog Democrats have struck a deal with House leaders to delay the vote until after the August

National Review published an extensive interview with Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) Wednesday. The discussion centered primarily around Paul’s views on monetary policy

The state of New York is currently considering lifting its ban on hydrofracking and adopting a set of regulations that allows the practice in some parts of the state but not others. ProPublica reports that the latest version of those regulations could directly affect water supplies in the nation’s largest city