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The second day of Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation hearings began today, featuring a large panel of witnesses to speak to Holder’s

Jimm Phillips reports that the DNC has chosen the four finalist cities for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, and notes that three of the four cities

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Sept. 28, 2009. Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Dec. 2, 2009. One day after Senate Majority

Every Monday since Dr. LeRoy Carhart began performing late-term abortions in Germantown, Md., on Dec. 6, 2010, a few handfuls of Maryland residents have

With today’s headlines screaming (perfectly legitimately) about last night’s health reform votes, it’s easy to forget that House lawmakers also passed the most

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. - Results are trickling in from NY-23, and it’s closer than some Hoffman campaign workers were thinking it would be. The rumors that have

Eric Kleefeld has the goods on Michael Steele’s really absurd fib that he wrote this book before he took over the RNC on January 29, 2009. On Tuesday, I noted

I owe it to a press release for the Center for Constitutional Rights for pointing this out to me, but think back to the halcyon days of early December 2009,

The trouble facing Democrats hoping to use repaid bailout money to fund other things is this: The Troubled Asset Relief Program stipulates that all such funds

But it’s important that they realize that they don’t have to be friends with the guys they replace the Democrats with, said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reforms. They get them to run on their issues. That’s how you avoid third party movements.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is hitting Massachusetts GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown over an ad launched yesterday by a 527 called Americans

That’s the warning coming today from the folks at the Center for Public Integrity, who caution that the recent High Court decision empowering corporations to

If there was one over-arching theme of the final night of the Republican National Convention, it was that liberals cannot be trusted to run things. From former

Ahead of the State of the Union, top aides contend Obama’s first-year task was to revitalize international support for America that waned during the Bush administration.

Scott Brown, the Republican newly elected to replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), has been surprisingly forthcoming about his vote in favor of the

It may be political poison for U.S. government officials to talk to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the taboo does not extend to NPR. NPR’s Steve

Though Clinton declined to give her specific thoughts on several controversial issues the picture that emerged from her eight-hour hearing was that of an energetic and progressive secretary of state prepared to reassert her department’s role in U.S. foreign policy.