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It puts any housing recovery in jeopardy, says Barry Zigas of the Consumer Federation of America.

Most Americans are concerned that Afghanistan will become another Vietnam. The Pentagon is becoming more critical of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The Times runs

Both Texas and Oklahoma are considering limiting access to RU 486 — a pill that is used to induce early labor and end a pregnancy.

Last Friday, the National Rifle Association held its annual gathering in Charlotte, N.C., where ThinkProgress asked a number of participants whether the Second

While you were sleeping, the Iraqi security forces and the ex-insurgent militiamen known as the Awakening Councils or the Sons of Iraq skirmished in the Baghdad

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One year after devastating floods in the Midwest, The Iowa Independent’s Lynda Waddington reports that government red tape continues to hinder recovery efforts.

Today’s news that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear the claims of kidnapping and torture filed against the United States by the American

Few communities of Washington wonks run into greater structural and institutional obstacles than advocates of reduced defense spending. Defense companies put

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Today, the Labor Department reported (PDF) that the number of available jobs remained mostly unchanged between July and August -- holding at about 3.2 million.

Obama trails Republicans in 2012 presidential match-ups. Colorado Republicans prepare for possibility of Scott McInnis dropping out of the race. The

A decade of cuts in federal combined with states mimicking Bush administration tax cuts have led states to fill revenue shortfalls with regressive tax policies.

Sen. Barack Obama needs young voters to keep turning out at unusually high rates in order to win in November. While his campaign adeptly mobilized them in

As reported here on Thursday, the House Armed Services Committee set the Obama administration’s plans for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay back

Just two days after receiving a letter from the White House urging that a public plan be part of the Democrats’ health reform strategy, Senate Finance Committee

New York Republicans are salivating over the House seat that Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is leaving behind to take an appointment as Secretary of State

As Kate pointed out a few weeks back, the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this month stalled 79 applications for new surface mines in the Appalachian

In case you missed it, Blackwater founder Erik Prince outed himself as a CIA asset in an extraordinary Vanity Fair interview. Prince complained that powerful

Nevada gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid (D) isn’t using the last name he shares with father Harry Reid in a new ad. Rod Blagojevich called Obama’s purported

In the latest bit of brazen slander from the right, Republican Senators are trying to invent a scandal about Justice Department lawyers who -- horror --