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When the Justice Department sued Arizona over the state’s SB 1070 immigration law, one of its key arguments was that federal authorities should be in charge of

From a rental car in Massachusetts, TWI’s intrepid David Weigel sat down with The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein yesterday for a Bloggingheads.tv session to talk

Two Denver companies announced Tuesday at the United Nations Private Sector Forum in New York City that they will team up to tackle the lack of electrical grid connectivity on the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners region. Nokero International , which supplies solar-powered lights and mobile chargers, will work with Eagle Energy , a non-profit formed by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s son, Doug. The two companies will work with Navajo Nation leaders to provide light in homes that often go dark when the sun sets, hopefully replacing dangerous and unhealthy kerosene lanterns and heaters

To much fanfare, the Obama administration a year ago launched a $75 billion program designed to prevent foreclosures by providing financial incentives to

Things aren’t looking up for Ben Bernanke, nominated by President Obama for a second term as head of the Federal Reserve. Sen. Barbara Boxer (Calif.) has become

After I wrote my earlier posts about how the National Rifle Association opposes the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court and explaining the

The tobacco industry is fighting a lonely battle against health insurance for poor kids. A coalition of tobacco industry groups ran a full-page ad in the

Here is an excerpt from my interview with Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process whereby natural gas is

Public Policy Polling’s latest presidential trial heat shows a lot of variance with the Fox News poll I cited yesterday. Mike Huckabee leads President Obama by

So the Obama administration’s Guantanamo task force has decided that about 50 people ought to be held indefinitely without charge. What’s the remedy to for

So this is what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) meant when he said he was canceling the week-long Columbus Day recess to work on health care reform.

Ari Adler, spokesperson for Michigan Speaker of the House Jase Bolger (R-Marshall), says the controversial anti-bullying bill passed last week by the state senate is not what is likely to pass the House. “The bill as passed by the Senate, is not what the final law will look like,” Adler tells Michigan Messenger. This announcement comes as outrage about the bill reached a crescendo over the weekend.

There’s a message emerging from Republicans in Congress that says this: rising unemployment numbers are indication that the Democrats’ strategy for economic

Finally, some explanation for the State Department’s role in not invalidating Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s visa. Recall that after CBS reported State had two

In 2008, 13 votes sent Cedar Rapids educator and small business owner Art Staed home from the Iowa House. He chose to sit out the 2010 election, which Democrats lost by more than 1,000 votes, but says he’s ready to face his old foe, Republican Rep. Renee Schulte , once again in 2012

Gov. Rick Perry may join Focus on the Family’s James Dobson and other conservative figures during a two-day Pastor Policy Briefing, in Orlando, Fla., an

Syracuse University law professor and journalist David Cay Johnston writes in an editorial for Tax.com that a major premise on which the debate over public

Erick Erickson has the news: Dick Armey, the former GOP House majority leader and current grand marshal of the Tea Party movement, will campaign for

Emails provided to the House Judiciary Committee at closed-door hearings yesterday reveal that President George W. Bush’s political adviser Karl Rove and other

Marc Ambinder has a preview of what Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will tell the Senate

At the end of a thoughtful post about National Intelligence Council Chairman Chas Freeman, Ezra Klein observes: But for Freeman’s detractors, a loss might

At Talking Points Memo, Brian Beutler reports that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is not interested in raising taxes on households making more than $250,000 a year or