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The New York Times today points out the chief flaw in the sweeping health reform bills passed by Congress last week: Health care spending might be

A series of exceptions to normal immigration laws are built into the system to protect victims of abuse, natural disasters and oppression. For illegal

Once again, Republican candidates are clamoring to be more like Ronald Reagan. There may be no higher compliment on the right than to be considered Reaganesque. Of course, once you drill down, Reagan’s actual positions on taxes, spending and immigration may well fit in better in the Democratic Party than in the current GOP.

At a forum sponsored by the George Washington University to be broadcast tomorrow on CNN’s new Christiane Amanpour program, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham

My pseudonymous friend Charlie has been AWOL from her perch at Abu Muqawama for so long that I thought Undersecretary of Defense for Policy-designate Michele

Gov. Mark Dayton addressed reporters and the state of Minnesota on Monday , detailing his efforts to resolve the state’s budget and end the government shutdown

The White House sent out a press release last night cataloging statements of praise by leaders in various fields for President Obama’s decision, announced

I was more than a little incredulous when I read that Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) claimed via Twitter to have stumped Energy Secretary Steven Chu with a simple

President-Elect Obama’s new economic team was the big announcement of the day on Monday, and overall the reviews were mostly good. Smart, competent, experienced

A mysterious YouTube member named, conveniently, megwhitmanonvanjones, has uploaded a May 2009 San Francisco Chronicle video of 2010 GOP California

North Carolina state Sen. James Forrester, of Gaston County, died Monday at the age of 74. Forrester was the lead author of a constitutional amendment that, if

The U.S. District Court for Western Michigan has issued an order in the civil lawsuit against a radical gay rights group that disrupted a Lansing church service in 2008. The court issued the order Monday against members of both the Bash Back! Lansing group and the national affiliate

The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false. The television ad from Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, running statewide on the FOX News Channel, erroneously claims the EPA wants to regulate methane from cattle and dust from farming activities

UPDATE: The original version of this article incorrectly listed earmarks from Fiscal Year 2010 as requests in Fiscal Year 2011. TAI drew those numbers from

This morning, the White House released an updated report on the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the stimulus bill passed in February 2009.

Andrew Ross Sorkin takes a shot at explaining why we have to pay those AIG bonuses today in The New York Times. Sorkin explains that he knows it’s not a popular

Everyone’s piling on Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele for his GQ interview, which can generously be read as a warm and fuzzy attempt to

The Washington Post’s story today about liberals who are frustrated that the Obama administration isn’t pressing harder to win confirmation for liberal-leaning

The Bank of America logo (Pic via blog.firstfoodbank.org) The Associated Press reports that Bank of America has completely back-peddled on its its plans to levy $5 debit card fees. The AP reports : The bank says in a statement that the decision to scrap the plan came after listening to customer feedback in recent weeks. The news comes after other major banks, including Chase and Wells Fargo, said last week that they were canceling tests of similar fees.

It crushes the low-income and elderly, says Robert McIntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice.

Pontiac’s Emergency Manager Lou Schimmel has fired the city’s clerk and attorney and replaced the director of public works with an employee of United Water — the criminally-indicted French water company that has operated the city’s wastewater treatment system since June.