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The big macroeconomic news today is that the United States’ GDP grew at a 3.2 percent per year pace in the first quarter -- the third straight quarter of strong

Via Ben Smith, we see Rudy Giuliani pondering a political comeback on the heels of a gay marriage bill in New York. This will create a grass-roots movement.

This afternoon, the House failed to pass a standalone bill that would have extended federal unemployment insurance benefits. Last week, the jobs bill pending in

Buried in that New York Times story I mentioned earlier about Obama’s quest for a CIA director comes this weird quote from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that

The debate over how to modernize the nation’s international spying laws in the midst of its so-called war on terror was stepped up a notch last Friday,

Starting in January, the maximum number of weeks someone can receive state unemployment benefits in Florida will fall from 26 weeks to 23.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) might be hating on Leon Panetta, but Rep. Rush Holt, the progressive New Jersey congressman who chairs the House Select

A handful of Austin-based crisis pregnancy center operators and Catholic groups have launched a federal lawsuit against the City of Austin over a mandate that

Some science bloggers are alarmed by predictions in the news that President-elect Barack Obama intends to appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the

Tim Pawlenty has claimed that Barack Obama is so frightened during foreign policy briefings that the president must wear Depends diapers .

Here’s the letter from Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, asking Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to

Via The Hill, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee later this month to testify on his role

The National Organization for Marriage is very, very good at pouring salt in the wound after gay marriage defeats. Here’s the full text of the release from

As Jeremy Scahill notes in his excellent interview of Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), Feingold is pretty much the only man on Capitol Hill willing to take on the

If Republicans have a good year in 2010, they’ll take out plenty of Democrats in swing seats. If they have a great year, they may defeat senior Democrats such

The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a pipeline safety bill that calls for automatic shut-off valves on new pipelines and requires new safety inspections for pre-1970 natural gas pipelines like the one that exploded and killed eight people in San Bruno, California last year.

An attempt by Rep.

Georgia’s House Republicans have a simple warning for Democratic leaders still hoping to pass health care reform this year: Our state can’t afford it. In a

Financial regulatory reform uses multiple complex provisions to force banks to raise capital and lower risk. Today, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) offered his