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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said goodbye to her constituents Sunday afternoon and handed off the baton to Lieutenant Gov. Sean Parnell. Explaining her

The federal Respect for Marriage Act has reached a record level of support, the latest coming from a North Carolina lawmaker who seems to object to a fact-tracked state level effort to place a ban on civil marriage for gays and lesbians in the state’s constitution. U.S. Rep

The following chart tells you everything you need to know about the United States’ trading relationship with China on green technology, an issue that you’ll be

Despite stated claims from politicians of every stripe about the desire to free the United States from the grip of foreign energy sources, the federal

Senate Republicans are pressuring President Obama into not releasing the controversial torture memos we’ve all been waiting for (and which the administration

Via The Lede, Iran’s state-run PressTV reports that some surely-super-serious plot has been disrupted thanks to a raid on Mir Hussein Moussavi’s Tehran

Today, TWI contributor Martha C. White has a good piece running down popular proposed cuts to Social Security and looking into how they might impact the most

Louis Uchitelle of The New York Times got many of the financial industry’s former (and current) titans to speak on the record about their support of the Volcker

It wasn’t until late Friday afternoon that the Obama Justice Department, after years of wrangling over the fate of Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan boy arrested for

Since House Democrats this afternoon released their finalized version of legislation aiming to mitigate America’s role in global climate change, the response

Colorado 4th Congressional District Rep. Cory Gardner has been steadily trying to chip away at the regulatory authority of the U.S

Check out this bit of inside baseball in this excellent Greg Jaffe piece about gay servicemembers waiting patiently for a final and to-be-determined end to the

When I ran into Howard Wolfson, the former message czar for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign, at the Democratic National Convention last week, I asked him

It came as little surprise when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) yesterday moved to kill efforts to lower seniors’ drug costs by

President Obama has consistently called for all emissions permits to be auctioned off to polluters under a cap-and-trade scheme to produce strong and immediate

Here is the full Gulf coast long-term recovery report, written by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. I wrote about the report earlier today here. According

The former Clinton-era State Dept. official shares with the president-elect a frustration with conventional foreign-policy thinking. Impatient with ideology, she focuses on transnational threats, challenges and opportunities -- befitting the emphasis of a new generation of global strategists. Her experience with Africa has taught her invaluable lessons.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the health reform bill unveiled today by House Democrats comes in under the $900 billion, 10-year threshold set

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been fighting hard to prevent cap-and-trade legislation from passing the Senate. But is equating itself with the anti-evolution

The former Massachusetts governor has taken a look at a 2012 social pledge introduced by an Iowa religious conservative organization and has decided not to sign.