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A coalition of 32 groups, including the League of Conservation Voters, the National Wildlife Federation and Audubon Nebraska, have written a letter to Sec.

Last week, Fannie Mae announced it lost $1.2 billion in the second quarter and asked the Treasury Department for an additional $1.5 billion to see it through.

Rep. Chip Cravaack is a top target of Democrats and reproductive rights advocates in 2012 even if the Republican freshman has yet to draw a challenger. Cravaack is one of 14 vulnerable Republicans the Democrats hope to unseat in 2012, and EMILY’s List has announced that Cravaack is one of its top five targets

Recently we noted that a popular kid’s movie, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, was set during the Great Depression and had a very topical theme: Bank

As fire crews continue battling some of the worst blazes this dry state has seen in years, Texas Gov. Rick Perry took a break from his presidential campaign

As national attention has become focused on the struggle by Holland residents to pass a non-discrimination ordinance, the anti-gay Family Research Council’s political arm rolled its “Values Voter’s Bus” into west Michigan Monday. The Grand Rapids Press reports the bus stopped in Holland Monday morning.

The push to preempt Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) as a potential running mate for Sen. Barack Obama is growing today. TPM covers a swift spike in membership for

RNC officials support reform, but worry whether states will be able to comply with the new guidelines and whether avoiding winner-takes-all primaries might privilege grassroots candidates.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) The anti-abortion group Kansans for Life is taking aim at U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary and former Kansas Gov

It seems that the Goldman Sachs executives testifying before Congress this week didn’t do a very good job convincing the powers that be that their investment

If I can say something that isn’t about Gaza for a minute, Jeff Stein at CQ has a great piece about how Barack Obama can’t find someone to become CIA director

I wrote today about the problems inherent with ad-hoc relationships between civilians and military officers during wartime, but I confess I didn’t think about

While it’s no surprise that President Clinton’s former Solicitor General Walter Dellinger and other traditionally Democratic high-caliber lawyers and scholars

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Getting to the Truth Through a Nonpartisan Commission of Inquiry convened this morning to consider Sen. Patrick Leahy’s

As House lawmakers continue to debate the Democrats’ climate change bill this week, we’re certain to hear some curious arguments coming from Congress’ global

This winter, environmental advocates cringed at every falling snowflake, knowing full well that climate change skeptics would point to them as a refutation of

Earlier this week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute posted a set of documents (PDF) it obtained via the Freedom of Information Act that it’s touting as

Via Nick Sabloff, this is the sort of media moment that would slow down the schedule of an ordinary pundit. But Meghan McCain’s, err, expertise, has never

John Brennan, President Obama’s chief counterterrorism, intelligence and homeland security adviser, is probably the foremost advocate of the proposition that