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Charlie Crist gets almost as much Democratic support as the party’s likely nominee in a new Florida Senate poll. Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff transfers

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice gave a speech in Israel yesterday urging that peace demands more than lip service, an unsubtle dig at Prime Minister Benjamin

It’s no news that many liberal critics of the Democrats’ stimulus plan are wondering why so much would go toward tax rebates and so little, relatively speaking,

I just called the American Enterprise Institute for a forthcoming TWI story about the importance of Nouri al-Maliki’s de facto endorsement of Barack Obama’s

Charles Homans delves into the history of Culture11, the witty, wide-ranging libertarian/conservative web magazine (full disclosure: I wrote for it) that

The national buzz on Iowa’s upcoming special election in Senate District 18 may be focused on the future of civil marriage, but you’d never know it from the candidate outreach to local residents. “Better jobs

TWI has acquired the text of a congressional resolution that may be introduced in the next few days condemning the findings of U.N. investigator Richard

It’s got to be this one from OurCountryDeservesBetter PAC. It cites Obama’s own doctor as an opponent of President Obama’s health care plan, even though Dr.

Florida resident, one-time presidential hopeful and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will act as keynote speaker at an anti-abortion “Personhood” banquet in Jackson, Miss., on Sept.

Jane Mayer has written a thorough and engaging piece about the Koch brothers for the latest issue of the New Yorker. While some have quipped that it falls

Following up on Spencer’s post, while President Obama’s critics are silent on the detention of alleged would-be Northwest Airlines Flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk

This is interesting. A group of thousands of scientists, engineers and science buffs called Science Debate 2008 got Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain to answer 14

Yesterday, the International Monetary Fund released a report on the world economy, revising upward its predictions for U.S. economic growth while lowering its

Some more details following yesterday’s story about the National Security Agency looking for a new top lawyer. As it turns out, the super-secret surveillance

In a week that has raised the specter of ballots that may have been wrongfully rejected, lost and, on Tuesday, found, challenged ballots -- those on which

This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a major report on April’s jobs numbers. The unemployment rate rose from 9.7 percent in March to 9.9

Cesar, a construction worker who asked that we not use his last name, tells The Florida Independent he has not been paid after working eight weeks at a construction project in the Broward County city of Sunrise. He says at least 50 workers who work 10 hours or more a day on this project have not received their wages for anywhere from three weeks to two months.

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), after saying last week that he was undecided on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, now says he will vote to confirm her for a seat

President Obama’s announcement to refocus efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan is the result of a much-anticipated, 60-day review.

Why, what do we have here, in Eric Alterman’s excellent New Yorker piece about the Huffington Post? The survivors among the big newspapers will not be

The state of Arizona spent $442,000 in legal fees in May and June defending its SB 1070 lawsuit from a series of lawsuits, according to documents released