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The situation of women, blacks and Hispanic workers who are employed, unemployed or looking for jobs in the U.S. merits a closer look. The U.S. Bureau of Labor

The White House announced today that, in addition to President Obama visiting New Orleans on Aug. 29, a number of administration officials will travel

Let me add to DeLong’s post. First, the idea that there is anything at all unseemly about associating with Rashid Khalidi is -- why mince words --

The Minnesota Family Council (MFC) may have spent the last eight years pushing for the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage that Minnesotans will vote on in November, but since its founding, the group has fought to uphold antiquated laws against homosexuality and sodomy that were often used against LGBT people. Formed as Coalition of Concerned Christians The Minnesota Family Council got its start in 1982 as a group of conservative Christians concerned that laws criminalizing gays and lesbians would be overturned. “I believe we need to be true to our roots and let who we are grow out of that.

Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are before the Senate Armed Services Committee to defend their

Well, at least one banking executive is personally feeling the pain of the foreclosure crisis: Wells Fargo has fired a top employee who moved into a foreclosed

The Foundation for Government Accountability logo (Pic via Facebook ) The Foundation for Government Accountability debuted a new website today — an online database of the salaries of public employees: FloridaOpenGov.org . The website is almost a replica of a project by Foundation President Tarren Bragdon at his last place of employment, the Maine Heritage Policy Center. According to a press release from the organization , the website is a compilation of “about 35 million public records detailing nearly $1.4 trillion in spending and payroll by state, county, municipality and school.” Here is some of the data included in the database, according to the release: County government payroll (FY 1997-2011) Local K-12 public education payroll (FY 1997-2011) State government payroll (1995-2010) Local government spending (FY 1993-2010) State vendor payments (FY 2005-2011) Steve Mistler of the Sun-Journal wrote in September 2010 that Bragdon’s group in Maine “fed the public’s oft-held suspicion that government is too wasteful published the names and salaries of every state employee on maineopengov.org, and linked it to the center’s homepage.” Critics called the website a “cynical hijacking of transparency to foster public mistrust in government,” Mistler reported

Sen. John McCain came into the second presidential debate tonight in Nashville in a position of weakness -- trailing nationally and slipping in the swing

In this corner: President Obama, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, (reluctantly) the service secretary and chief of staff of the Air Force, this very smart Air

How’s this for absurdity? Citing unnamed Democratic officials, The Associated Press reports that there’s pressure on Congress to drop the executive pay

A recent two-week trip through Afghanistan revealed a populace deeply unhappy with corruption in their government.

Responding to that McClatchy-Ipsos poll, Rush Limbaugh cracks wise: They have done a national poll, and they have found that about a third of the American

A friend passes on a copy of the inaugural issue of The Centurion, the conservative paper James O’Keefe started at Rutgers University -- before he worked for a

It’s no mystery that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been opposed to some of the very bank reforms proposed by President Obama yesterday (which explains why

The powerful special envoy fielded questions about what the Obama administration considers success in Afghanistan.

While most news channels focused on Sen. John McCain’s big night on Thursday, it was a battle of the B.O.s on Fox News. Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic

The strategy to rally all the Senate Democrats behind a public plan hit a brick wall on Tuesday, after Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) announced his intention to

Granted, the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement has been kind of under the media radar in general. But what’s really gotten no attention, even from obsessives

Democratic leaders in Iowa say the occupy movement generally lines up with their party’s values, but both those leaders and people in the movement are wary of any connection between the two. Hugh Espey, executive director of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement , said he believes Democrats will try to co-opt the movement.

Via Wonkbook, this morning, the Foundation for Child Development released its annual report on the well-being of America’s children, and it should send shivers