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WATERTOWN, N.Y. - Dozens of activists from Generation Joshua have made the trip to New York’s 23rd Congressional District, and on Monday they organized into

On Sunday, TWI’s David Weigel chatted with The Root’s Dayo Olopade on Bloggingheads.tv, discussing the Super Bowl, snow, New Orleans politics, Tea Parties and

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has taken his case against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to the public, explaining why he plans to vote against a nominee

Soon, the House plans to vote on a sweeping child-nutrition bill. The Senate passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, a deficit-neutral bill providing $4.5

Women should screen for breast cancer less frequently and at a later age, according to new recommendations issued Monday by a well-respected preventative

Apropos of my story today on municipalities that want to opt out of Secure Communities, the county manager for Arlington, Va., sent a letter to Immigration and

Today, Immigration Impact, the blog of the Immigration Policy Center, reported on a shift in tactics in the immigration debate: A growing number of Republican

J. Patrick Coolican profiles Jon Scott Ashjian, the wealthy businessman who’s filed as the Tea Party’s candidate against Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). He doesn’t

One report. Two very different interpretations. The Congressional Budget Office stirred yet another hornet’s nest Monday when it released its latest analysis

The Supreme Court ruled today that the federal government can hold some sex offenders indefinitely. Voters return to the Democratic fold, albeit narrowly, in

NORFOLK, Virg. -- Sen. Barack Obama tours another swing state school on Wednesday, pushing a retooled education plan that promises more of

The health care lobby is hiring former government officials and aides to join the fight. Fred Hiatt of The Washington Post criticizes Obama’s spend first,

The best way to flatter Bill Clinton? Faint. Rich Iott is insulted that Eric Cantor disliked his Nazi reenactments. Tuesday is the worst day of the

Two days after President Obama criticized the industry for impeding reform, Kathleen Sebelius told a conference of insurers it was time for a new strategy.

A thinly-sourced article by conservative economist and former Club for Growth President Stephen Moore in last week’s Wall Street Journal alleging that Rep.

Chris Christie, the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey who has ridden his experience as a U.S. attorney to a healthy lead in the polls, is taking

PG&E, the owner of a California natural gas pipeline that exploded in September, killing eight people, released a plan yesterday to upgrade its pipeline

Well, we knew that SEC employees weren’t policing the Lehman Brothers or sharing information on its collapse with the Fed and they weren’t getting Goldman to

On the crucial question of where Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be tried and in what forum -- where nuance will be heavily scrutinized -- Eric Holder held out

The hell that Ken Wainstein endures is a torment of bipolar disorder. The life-affirming rush of mania: We and our foreign partners have disrupted a number

The Washington Post’s Greg Jaffe has a good story about a concerted push by Gen. William Caldwell and Interior Minister Hanif Atmar, the two highest-level

People.com reports that Bristol Palin, daughter of former GOP vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, gave birth over the weekend. Bristol

Alan Bersin, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, was asked a good question during a talk this afternoon hosted by the Migration Policy