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It’s worth noting that in his speech this morning, while President Obama said he doesn’t think Congress ought to convene a truth commission along the lines of

A new report by the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit environmental group, finds that pollution from coal-fired power plants will result in the premature death

Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) on Thursday responded to a growing number of reports about the poor

The Senate shot down legislation Wednesday that would have effectively scrapped local and state conceal and carry laws.

You probably haven’t heard of the TANF Emergency Fund, a program tucked into the massive $787 billion Feb. 2009 stimulus, but the administration considered it

On Sunday, TWI’s David Weigel chatted with The Root’s Dayo Olopade on Bloggingheads.tv, discussing the Super Bowl, snow, New Orleans politics, Tea Parties and

After a spate of requests by Democrats and campaign finance groups for an IRS investigation of a number of section 501(c) organizations accused of abusing their

Doing damage control in the wake of Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s “senior moment” during last night’s nationally televised debate, in which he cast about for full minutes in search of a government agency he could vow to slash, Team Perry is spinning the gaffe as a folksy human flub, recalling episodes of high-profile mental drifting by Presidents Obama, Reagan and Ford. Staffers blasted out a fundraising email, asking supporters what department of the federal government they would cut if they were president

The League of Conservation Voters today released its 2008 National Environmental Scorecard, which rates members of Congress on energy and environmental

President Obama called on Congress to repeal the ban on openly gay people serving in the military last night. The path to doing so runs through the Senate Armed

Monday’s much-anticipated Palmetto Freedom Forum, held in Columbia, S.C., was an opportunity for the country’s leading anti-gay-marriage group, National

Zachary Roth has been all over the story of a Florida Tea Party leader who sent a racist photo of President Obama as a witch doctor to a Tea Party listserv.

According to a survey released by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (known as NACCHO), 55 percent of all local health departments across the country had to trim down or completely eliminate at least one program in their department. Florida’s local health departments, in particular, suffered severe budget cuts this year

Describing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s tendency to appoint her friends to high-level state jobs, The New York Times wrote last month that The Wasilla High

If all we’re doing is exporting Guantanamo to Thomson for purposes of military commissions and indefinite detention, said one civil liberties advocate, we’re very strongly opposed to that.

The U.S. could face a spat with Mexican government officials over a California ballot measure to legalize marijuana, which Mexican President Felipe Calderón

Members of Occupy Detroit have worked with local businesses to secure a multi-story office building, a store front for sign-making, a warehouse, and a renovated 50-unit hotel that will serve as housing for protesters. Occupy Detroit spokesperson Lee Gaddis said the group plans to pack up the Grand Circus Park encampment and move into donated space where it will be able to focus on political work

Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and President Barack Obama didn’t differ much in their reaction to New York lawmakers passing same-sex marriage into law on Friday. Both said that states have the right to pass legislation and neither endorses gay marriage. However, the crucial difference between the two is that Obama supports rights and legal protections for same-sex couples, while Bachmann opposes any rights for such couples

CHICAGO, IL -- On the first official day of the general election homestretch, Sen. Barack Obama is rushing to address the latest economic news, as the

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will traipse through the California heartland today to lend his support to former eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman, a candidate in

If you’ve got a credit card, you can’t be blamed for thinking that the landmark legislation recently passed by Congress to curb abuses by card issuers would

The good thing about staying on as defense secretary is that you can fly into Kandahar whenever you feel like it. And, like a baller, you can announce new troop

On Tuesday, a group of moderate Senate Democrats -- wary that a proposal to scrap billions of dollars of subsidies to private student lenders would cost jobs in