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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

In the spring of 2007, as the first wave of new combat brigades arrived in Baghdad to execute President George W. Bush’s troop surge, an Army lieutenant

In the last month, there’s been a rediscovery of Ronald Reagan’s 1965 recording Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine. Sarah Palin deserves a

From The Washington Post: The economy lost more jobs than expected in December while the unemployment rate held steady at 10 percent, as a sluggish economic

The White House has announced that it will issue an executive order reiterating the 34-year old prohibition on the federal funding of abortion. The move was

As I wrote on Wednesday, there are already several lawsuits from torture victims pending against the United States, and some legal scholars predict many more to

Former President George W. Bush’s chief of staff and senior adviser Karl Rove was greeted by right-wing protesters Wednesday evening at the annual Lincoln Dinner in Colorado Springs , a fundraiser for the El Paso County Republican Party.

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

In Utah, illegal immigrants can be granted driver’s privilege cards to prove their driving eligibility even if they cannot prove legal residence to get a

In an interview with PolitickerAZ.com, Arizona Republican Party Executive Director Sean McCaffrey dismissed news reports that Sen. Barack Obama outraised Sen.

In a column published today at CNN/Money, Maya MacGuineas, director of the fiscal policy program at the New America Foundation , takes a sharp look at Washington’s budget problems and concludes that Colorado Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall seem to be two of very few actual adults involved in the budget mess. MacGuineas was in Denver Friday to participate in a budget forum sponsored by Udall and Bennet–but which they couldn’t actually attend because of negotiations then going on in the Capital

What’s the next chapter in the health care reform battle? Politico lists the House members at risk for re-election after the health care vote. McCain vows

GOP Senate candidate Adam Hasner (right), in a 2009 photo (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) In his campaign for the GOP nomination in the race to unseat Sen. Bill Nelson, Adam Hasner has been positioning himself as a tea party favorite on a slew of issues, but none seem as close to his heart as his long-time crusade against the supposed threat of Sharia in the U.S

On July 15, with little fanfare, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) introduced the Czar Accountability and Reform (CZAR) Act of 2009,* written to prohibit taxpayer

Via Adam Serwer at Tapped, the New America Foundation has a new report out addressing that slippery, demagoguery-filled claim about Guantanamo detainees

Here is a statement issued by the Association of Patriotic Arab Americans in Military on Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s murder of 13 people at Ft. Hood yesterday: At