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Two bills pending before the Michigan House of Representatives that would diminish the unemployment benefits for tens of thousands of Michigan residents are drawing strong criticism from the National Employment Law Project, a group that advocates for the unemployed. The first bill, HB 4781, is sponsored by Rep

In the brief period since the release of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s House Negro tape, bloggers have gone crazy celebrating the U.S.’s free-of-charge good fortune.

The post-election panic on the right isn’t limited to the Republican Party’s identity crisis. As our sister site Colorado Independent has discovered, the

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke may be running for a Hero of Wall Street award. Over the last few months, he has opened up the Fed’s coffers

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty got an exclusive interview with Hamid Karzai after yesterday’s presidential debate. The whole thing’s fairly predictable --

The latest tweet from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa): Specter got it all wrong that I ever used words death boards. Even liberal press never accused me of

Via Democracy Arsenal. CQ Politics’ Political Insider reports some glaring similarities between parts of Sen. John McCain’s statement to reporters earlier today

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), a longtime supporter of a single-payer health care system, has been doing much of the liberal grumbling today in the face of

This morning, Fannie Mae -- a government-sponsored enterprise that buys mortgages on the secondary market and that made $72 billion in losses last year --

Despite the stall-out in the recovery and the decline in median wages, Wall Street executives look set for record pay-outs this year. The Wall Street Journal

The other day I wondered what the reported ascendence of Jim Steinberg to deputy secretary of state meant for Richard Holbrooke’s job prospects. Reading about

From the Department of Labor today comes more news that this recession will be around for a while: In January alone, 598,000 more Americans lost their jobs,

It’s not just former Vice President Dick Cheney who misrepresented what the CIA inspector general’s report says about the effectiveness of torture. Michael

TPM Muckraker talked to some experts to get their take on the significance of President Obama’s new government transparency orders, and they’re concluding that

Rep. Michele Bachmann was in Montana over the weekend raising money for Rep

Weeks after United Auto Workers members approved a new deal with General Motors, the union’s Ford workers ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with the only major American automaker not to go through bankruptcy in 2009. The United Auto Workers has made it official: Its 41,000 members at Ford Motor Co