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But The Guardian’s Iran election page is auto-refreshing every minute to bring live updates. That’s definitely something I’m keeping open all day. Also, the

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito’s (R) announcement Wednesday that she would not run in West Virginia’s special election to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D)

Sen. Barack Obama granted an exclusive interview to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday night, huddling with the popular new prime time host in an appearance

Perhaps not as ironic as Politico’s Ben Smith makes it out to be, but Senate Democrats will vote Thursday on the DISCLOSE Act because a number of them will be

One reason why Republicans so often cite Rasmussen Reports is that other pollsters have consistently shown much more -- and more resilient -- support for

Cleveland blogger Bill Callahan follows another development in the foreclosure crisis hitting Cleveland and other cities in the Midwest. He illustrates the end

Even though there’s a new administration in Washington promising broad ethics reforms, it looks like the old way of doing things may still be alive and well in

Roughly two-thirds of unlicensed gun show dealers sold weapons to undercover investigators even after those investigators told dealers that they probably

As he mentions in his Washington Examiner column this week, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich appeared in a commercial about the environment with House

On Sunday, WikiLeaks released more than 700 classified military documents on Guantánamo Bay prisoners, part of a trove of classified information it received

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Feb. 28, 2009. As Dave Weigel notes, the Tea

The New York Times’ Sunday lead editorial is devoted to how the new Obama administration can and should close down Guantanamo Bay shortly after Barack Obama

Gov. Rick Perry declined to come out against New York’s recent passage of marriage equality over the weekend, claiming it’s a policy states have the right

My friend Kriston Capps tips me to an interesting look by The Associated Press at whether Nigeria’s violence-plagued oil sector foreshadows oil development

What seemed like a clear path ahead was upstaged by the health care battle.

The Minnesota Independent has the details: Elwyn Tinklenberg is terminating his campaign for Congress. The former Blaine mayor, who lost to U.S. Rep. Michele

On the week of the one-year anniversary of Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration bill -- which has provoked copycats throughout the country -- Republican

The trendy way to influence elections this cycle is through independent expenditure committees, and as I wrote yesterday, these committees are, in most