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Here’s the cover of Jonathan Alter’s book about FDR’s first 100 days, The Defining Moment -- reportedly, a big hit with Obama staff during the

Chris Cilllizza was so impressed by the performance of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on NBC’s Meet the Press that he asks whether the senator might be a new

A bill introduced last month by Sen. Amy Klobuchar could make it a felony criminal act to stream copyrighted “performances” online without permission

While much of the Republican establishment bloviates about the injustice of President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of Rep. Rahm Emanuel for his chief of

Laura Rozen reports a few post-Asia trip scheduling conflicts: Hillary Clinton is hosting an all-day retreat for her senior staff Friday at Blair House.

The American Civil Liberties Union just issued this report (with this neat YouTube video accompanying it) on the range of problems created by the U.S.

The new ADP National Employment Report , which measures only private, non-farm jobs and not government jobs, says that the economy produced 211,000 new private jobs in the past month. Private-sector employment increased by 201,000 from February to March on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report® released today.

The White House has proposed a regulation to overturn a controversial Bush administration rule that expanded the rights of health care workers to deny services

CHICAGO, Ill.-- The Obama campaign has put together a pretty nice victory event here at sprawling Grant Park in Chicago. More than 100,000 people are

Bart Stupak, the Democrat who retired from the Dist. 1 Congressional seat he held since 1993 this year after facing bipartisan attacks for his vote on federal health care reform , has signed on with the DC law and lobbying group Venable LLP. Politico has the announcement: Venable LLP announced that former Michigan Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak, has joined the firm’s Washington, DC office as a partner in the Legislative and Government Affairs Group.

Former Wisconsin Gov.

Today, at 2 p.m., the Senate will vote on Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) motion to invoke cloture on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill.

The Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options ( Hispanic CREO ) held a forum Friday in Fort Lauderdale to discuss how school choice can help boost success for Hispanic students. Both Michelle Rhee — an informal education adviser to Gov.

While the big religious right event in Washington, D.C., this weekend was Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Conference, which drew a half-dozen presidential

Via Ben Smith, we find Center for Security Policy founder Frank Gaffney pulling out his hair and rending his garments about President Obama’s Cairo speech.

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Aaron just hit this from the angle of climate change. I found Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D-W.Va.) op-ed interesting because, as recently as March, he was attacking the

Tonight’s Afghanistan strategy rollout comes at a tense moment for congressional Democrats. President Obama will announce an escalation of U.S. forces, an

Tar Sands Action, the group that organized the massive protests at the White House against the Keystone XL pipeline that resulted in more than 1,000 arrests, has announced the third phase of their protest plans against the project. The second phase, protests at events at which President Obama is speaking, is still ongoing. Phase three is slated for Nov

I’m at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, where at 1 p.m., retired Gen. Jim Jones, President Obama’s national security adviser, will deliver a keynote speech on the

The national security adviser didn’t say anything new during his afternoon talk to the Center for American Progress about reconciliation with the Taliban. Jim

Anti-Lowe’s protesters at Saturday’s rally A Saturday demonstration outside of a Lowe’s home improvement store in a Detroit suburb brought out more than 150 local residents and religious leaders and even one state representative — all of whom were protesting the chain’s decision to pull its ads from the TLC reality show All-American Muslim after receiving numerous calls to do so by the Florida Family Association. The group demonstrated outside of the Lowe’s in Allen Park, a Detroit suburb adjacent to the city where All-American Muslim is filmed