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Monday’s much-anticipated Palmetto Freedom Forum, held in Columbia, S.C., was an opportunity for the country’s leading anti-gay-marriage group, National

Zachary Roth has been all over the story of a Florida Tea Party leader who sent a racist photo of President Obama as a witch doctor to a Tea Party listserv.

Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), who apologized shortly after the 2008 election for comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler, is going back to that well. The Athens

A majority of people imprisoned by the federal government for felonies in 2011 have been Hispanic, according to a report by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. The

In celebration of this historic Election Day, The Los Angeles Times reaches into the electoral memorabilia vault and profiles what it calls the greatest modern

Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), a steadfast supporter of the coal industry, responds to the tragic mine explosion yesterday that killed at least 25 people: West

Obama will announce a national education initiative to help low-performing schools. Dodd’s consumer protection plan may not actually protect

You may recall Michael E. Arth, the spunky developer-turned-Democratic candidate for governor of Florida who took to The Streak’s comment thread to insist he’s

No one will be claiming a turnout of two million, but Howard Dean and company managed to draw a healthy crowd for their health care rally today in Washington’s

Apparently, California Republican candidates Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman unveiled a new method for attracting Latino voters: tequila shots. The Senate and

Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and President Barack Obama didn’t differ much in their reaction to New York lawmakers passing same-sex marriage into law on Friday. Both said that states have the right to pass legislation and neither endorses gay marriage. However, the crucial difference between the two is that Obama supports rights and legal protections for same-sex couples, while Bachmann opposes any rights for such couples

CHICAGO, IL -- On the first official day of the general election homestretch, Sen. Barack Obama is rushing to address the latest economic news, as the

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will traipse through the California heartland today to lend his support to former eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman, a candidate in

If you’ve got a credit card, you can’t be blamed for thinking that the landmark legislation recently passed by Congress to curb abuses by card issuers would

The good thing about staying on as defense secretary is that you can fly into Kandahar whenever you feel like it. And, like a baller, you can announce new troop

On Tuesday, a group of moderate Senate Democrats -- wary that a proposal to scrap billions of dollars of subsidies to private student lenders would cost jobs in

This week, with Congress back from the Memorial Day recess, legislators will again push for a $23 billion aid bill to keep public-school teachers in their

Sotomayor Hearings Toolbox: Here’s a live stream on C-SPAN with multiple cameras angles for interactive fun. The Wonk Room, SCOTUSblog, The Huffington Post’s

One reason I pay a lot of attention to Glenn Beck is that, viewer for viewer and listener for listener, he has a more direct impact on the conservative movement

After noting that the disturbed woman who accused Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) of supporting a Nazi policy was a LaRouche cultist, I checked out the trove of

They weren’t kidding when they said this evening’s markup of finance reform legislation would be a speedy affair. The Banking Committee took less than an

John McCain is right about John McCain, said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), speaking to reporters this morning as an Obama surrogate. Emanuel seized on a

In non-shoe-throwing news, Anand Gopal of the Christian Science Monitor does some great reporting about something called the Afghan Social Outreach Program,