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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

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.

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.

With the death of Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) Monday -- just three days after he’d become the longest-serving congressman in Pennsylvania’s history -- Capitol

Instead of shutting down, payday lenders in some of the same states that passed reforms are making loans at higher rates than before the laws were enacted.

Efforts by some of Washington’s biggest campaign spenders, like the NRA, may have scared enough Democrats to make the legislation impossible to pass in its current form.

This is a little bit inside baseball, but it lends a glimpse at the relationship between politics and policy in Washington. Democrats, as they push to renew

Last week, a federal judge ruled that the government had failed to justify the detention for the last seven years of a 50-year-old Kuwaiti engineer who worked

The media might be turning their attention to the looming crisis in commercial real estate, but some on Capitol Hill still doubt that the White House is doing

The National Republican Congressional Committee has begun running ads against U.S.

A national progressive organization is once again launching a television ad in Iowa, this time urging President Barack Obama to “fight, don’t cave” on ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.

Following up on Matt’s nice post about the states tapping Obama for help with enormous budget shortfalls... Few are saying it out loud, but the issue has a

The last time we saw Larry Sinclair, an ex-con who won a strange sort of fame in 2008 for his wild and unsubstantiated allegations against Barack Obama, he was

Hey, this is going to come as a big shock, but it turns out that some Guantanamo Bay prisoners on trial for plotting Sept. 11 are actually claiming they’ve

From the offices of Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Harry Reid (D-Nev.) comes this description of the latest unemployment benefits extension being put forth by

The rapid implosion of Rep. Eric Massa’s (D-N.Y.) career will end with his resignation from Congress on Monday, less than a week after he announced that he had

Michigan Forward says that more than 500 people have signed up to circulate petitions calling for a referendum on Public Act 4 — the Emergency Manager law. “Since our presentation to the city of Pontiac on May 12, our volunteer capacity has increased to over 500 volunteers in our focus communities: Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti, Benton Harbor, Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Pontiac, Lansing, Traverse City, Saginaw, Southfield and Warren,” the progressive think tank said in a statement. The March 16 law was cast as a measure to address the state’s growing economic problems and allows emergency managers to take over towns and schools, fire elected officials, sell public property, end collective bargaining and privatize services.

Going back over that Liza Mundy profile of Orly Taitz, I think she actually missed an important detail about Taitz’s arguments, as well as missing the only

As I’ve been writing since last night, the tale of the CIA’s payments to Ahmed Wali Karzai seems less like a story about corruption than it does a story about

Last week, Gov. Rick Scott signed the state’s budget, which proposed reductions to health services for women and children. He also vetoed millions more in health service projects set aside specifically for women and children.