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If you haven’t been following the latest speculation about the potential musical chairs on various energy committees in Congress as a result of the midterms,

Self-employed New Mexicans relying on Blue Cross Blue Shield health care services are due to incur a ten percent increase on premiums paid less than a year

Personhood Mississippi has launched a new website to tout its “Yes on 26″ campaign, which aims to drum up publicity for an amendment that would make abortion, and possibly some forms of birth control, illegal in the state. # The website, YesOn26.net , includes a section of endorsements (which are plenty), volunteer and email lists, and several ads for the amendment, including a video entitled “Ronald Reagan endorses Personhood.” # The site also lists the members of the Yes on 26 “Advisory Board,” which is co-chaired by Mississippi Lt

According to the conservative Business and Media Institute, Republican whips are going to give their House colleagues iPod touches to keep everyone on message.

For my piece today I present a number of progressive agenda-items for a new counterterrorism policy. But naturally I couldn’t include everything that my

In a stunning break from everything it has stood for in its entire history as a measured voice for neoliberal economic policies, The Economist has endorsed Sen.

Party tactics trumped seniority. Democrats take a bold step as Henry Waxman, who is far more in line with the president-elect’s agenda, replaces John Dingell as chairman of one of the most powerful House committees.

During periods of one-party government, when Democrats controlled both the White House and the Congress, history shows that they have not shifted radically toward a leftward agenda.

This was murky earlier today, when I wrote about the size of Sarah Palin’s fee for speaking at the Tea Party Convention, but it’s been confirmed. The former

In late January, accusations started flying that former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) campaign had concocted a story that its Website had crashed after a

According to a report released by the Guttmacher Institute yesterday, abortion rates in the U.S. have dropped in the past decade among almost every subgroup of women – except for the impoverished. From the years 2000 to 2008, low-income women accounted for 42.4 percent of abortions.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer (Pic via ice.gov) The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it will begin reviewing about 300,000 deportation proceedings to implement prosecutorial discretion measures laid out in a June 2011 memo issued by John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (aka ICE).

Staff for the national oil spill commission released preliminary conclusions today regarding the cause of the April 20 Macondo well blowout, which led

Northwestern economist Robert Gordon brings the gloom: belongs to the committee of distinguished economists who officially declared on Sept. 20 that the

After a marathon two-day markup session that vacillated wildly between partisan hostility and bipartisan comity, the education bill to overhaul No Child Left

Robin Reid, a language and literature professor at Texas A&M University-Commerce, is working to set up a safe space for the gay, lesbian and transgender

In their quarterly filings with the Federal Election Commission, NARAL Pro-Choice America disclosed that they put some of their resources up against GOP presidential contender and U.S.