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What is incorporation? Among the many legal terms mentioned over the last four days of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings, the

Don’t expect to see Harry Reid break up immigration reform into small pieces -- at least not if one of those pieces is an expansion of the E-Verify program.

Last year’s expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program was the legislative high point of the last decade, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the

As dynamic as Sen. Barack Obama is seen in the popular imagination, what has gotten him here today -- 15 points ahead of Sen. John McCain in the latest Pew poll -- is his and his organization’s ability to methodically achieve one goal, and then another.

Abu Muqawama, reading a story from The Washington Post about the cost overruns of the Army’s/SAIC’s/Boeing’s Future Combat Systems, remarks: SAIC’s executive

With a new administration, dozens of new members of Congress, billions of dollars in stimulus spending up for grabs, and multiple national crises, 2009 is

Democratic leaders in Iowa say the occupy movement generally lines up with their party’s values, but both those leaders and people in the movement are wary of any connection between the two. Hugh Espey, executive director of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement , said he believes Democrats will try to co-opt the movement.

Responding to that McClatchy-Ipsos poll, Rush Limbaugh cracks wise: They have done a national poll, and they have found that about a third of the American

Rasmussen Reports has an already-Drudged poll on the 2012 presidential election, which finds former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) tying Barack Obama and soon-to-be

In some quarters, Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s order to his troops in Afghanistan to protect civilians first represents a dangerous exposure to battlefield risk,

At the rally outside the Capitol on Sunday, Brendan Steinhauser of FreedomWorks told me that he was hearing things about the race in FL-19, the congressional

Richard Holbrooke, a longtime diplomat, has reconfigured the State Department’s South and Central Asia bureau.

At the Code Red rally today, I did the reporting for this post. When I returned to the office, I fired off a 3:41 email to Jane Hamsher. Hamsher did

Mary Ann Akers works the Too Much Information beat at the Media Research Center’s annual awards dinner, reporting that Samuel Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher

Testimony from any interrogator about personal involvement in detainee abuse on behalf of an abused detainee will be a milestone for the military commissions.

Sen. Barack Obama’s latest TV ad attacks his GOP rival for raising taxes on health care, based on a sharp exchange from the VP debate. It’s an unconventional

Leading headlines this morning are two economic datapoints that count as positive in the current climate. Thursday is the day for weekly jobless claims, and

I guess there must be a bright side for somebody in any economic downturn, and top bankruptcy lawyers seem to have found it. As hard times hit more businesses,

TWI presents the five people who did the most to craft America’s approach to keeping its citizens safe in 2009.