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In recent weeks, the media has linked Sen. Ben Nelson’s (D-Neb.) opposition to health reform directly to the abortion language in the bill -- as if satisfying

Coal industry defenders were quick to blast the EPA’s intervention as a threat to jobs.

Ha’aretz correspondents Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff think Israel, despite the apocalyptic rhetoric, is actually prepared to pull back when the Air Force

Hadi Ghaemi of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said he has a hard time taking a strong stance one way or the other about the Berman-Pence

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is expected to release today more details of the energy bill he will bring to the floor before the August recess. But

A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week: - The Arizona House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday that would make the state’s immigration

If Howard Dean were still the head of the Democratic National Committee, he would be “quietly rooting” for a government shutdown, he said while speaking on

Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-Ohio) decision to vote aye on the Senate version of health care reform, while not a huge surprise, is hard for Republicans to pin on

Over the weekend, noted blogger/hoax peddler Larry Johnson responded to my post on the anniversary of the Michelle Obama whitey tape with a new theory about

Following up on this morning’s post about Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) calling for a hearing on 44 czars, I asked McHenry’s spokesman Brock McCleary where

After weeks of Congressional wrangling over raising the debt ceiling, U.S. Rep. Ron Paulthrew a wet rag on celebrations by his Republican colleagues, with a

This week, Jesse Rothstein, the chief economist at the Labor Department, spoke at the Economic Policy Institute, and the organization just posted the slides.

Maybe I should have added Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to my list of Congress members to watch on Afghanistan. At his weekly pen-and-pad briefing, the Democratic

A powerful story from The Washington Post: a leading State Department foreign-service officer official in Afghanistan’s Zabul province has resigned in protest

Although unemployment numbers for the month of February won’t be out until Friday, the administration is already on the political defensive -- never a good

Not to be lost in the Iran shuffle: Greg Sargent reports that Democrats on the House intelligence committee are drafting a bill that would prevent the executive

Democrats and Republicans traded barbs Monday after Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, declared an end to the Joint Select Committee on Redistricting by preparing to introduce a bill to create a Democratic map. In turn, Republicans said they too would introduce a map to compete with the Democratic version.

How can you tell when the Karzai-Taliban peace talks are gaining momentum? When Carlotta Gall of The New York Times writes a curtain-raiser on them. Much of

For months, a debate has raged over whether the Federal Reserve, the country’s central bank, should do more to help the economy -- particularly to gin up more