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If you want to know why some consumer advocates and others are concerned about current financial regulatory reform proposals to house a Consumer Financial

It’s angry Tea Party town hall month in America and, in Arizona yesterday, Senator John McCain got a taste of the kind of crazy that colored Colorado’s gubernatorial race last year.

About 25 people gathered Thursday afternoon in front of the Bank of America building in downtown Des Moines for a “jobs not cuts” rally, showing support for the occupy movement, President Obama’s jobs bill and safety net programs. The rally, organized by Moveon.org and the AFL-CIO, said Bank of America has become a symbol of greed.

It’s no secret that many within the McCain campaign are not happy with the volume and tone of what they regard as the media’s fawning coverage of Sen. Barack

One of the ideas for financial regulatory reform that President Barack Obama will outline today is the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency,

UPDATE*: Aug. 8, 2011, 2 p.m. EST The Summer of Mercy 2.0 ended Monday morning with a final protest in front of Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s abortion clinic in

Minneapolis-based retailer Target told investors on Wednesday that the company will not be taking sides on the anti–gay marriage amendment slated for the 2012 ballot. The shareholders meeting in Pittsburgh, the first held since a nationwide boycott targeted the stores last fall over its corporate contributions to Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, drew protesters critical of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and members of the LGBT community. Target’s announcement comes as Twin Cities LGBT Pride festivities get under way — an event for which Target is a major sponsor

The Washington Post reported today that a new report by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute that says there is a plume of oil in the Gulf of Mexico that

Jason Leopold at The Public Record has acquired some important inside information about a still-classified report written by the Justice Department’s Office

There’s speculation that 89-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens, the liberal stalwart on the court, may soon announce his retirement. Justice Stevens has

According to critics of laws forcing employers to pay women wages equal to those of men, government-enforced wage equity is an unfair burden on employers and

Former Michigan GOP chief Saul Anuzis has made it official: He is going to challenge Michael Steele for the right to run the Republican Party. Anuzis told

This morning, ADP, a payroll processing firm, put out its latest employment report. It isn’t good. Between July and August, private employers shed an estimated

Ben Smith previewed the latest conservative manifesto-cum-PR-event launching in the run-up to CPAC, and the text is after the jump. RightWingWatch has a good

Legislators and social conservative activists misused the state’s judicial retention elections in order to attack judges that upheld the rights of same-sex couples, several people familiar with the process say, and are now misusing the another process by pushing to impeach other judges from the bench.

Nothing surprising here. Here’s the statement in full: The President has said repeatedly that he wants to look forward, not back, and the President agrees with

Here’s a good game for a rainy Sunday. Several credit card companies have launched a new Website designed to help struggling card users manage their debts

For a civic group that bristles at charges of generating even the most suggestive air of violence, the 9.12 Project sure likes its handguns. Around the country,

A study by an Oregon fair-housing audit firm detailing widespread housing discrimination in Portland has compelled Oregon lawmakers to put pressure on the state

Here’s some good news for the long-term unemployed poised to exhaust their jobless benefits in the midst of Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) one-man stand against a

<p>Marty Lederman has a <a href="http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/01/real-cia-tapes-scandal-that-everyone-is.html">typically excellent

When the Republican National Committee launched the new version of GOP.com, Zachary Roth noticed that Michael Zak, an author and speaker who argues that the