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Kenneth Feinberg will take over BP’s claims process for victims of the Gulf oil spill on Aug. 23. As that date fast approaches, Feinberg is rounding out his

People who have struck out looking for jobs, like Michele Walker of Pennsylvania, are dropped from the nation’s labor force, even if they desperately want work.

Another principle most participants in the Future of Housing Finance Treasury Department conference agreed on: The country needs more, better rental housing.

In January, I previewed the Winter Soldier conference sponsored by Iraq Veterans Against the War. Winter Soldier is an investigation into eyewitness accounts

Citizens for Ethics in Washington filed an IRS complaint against former Sen. Norm Coleman’s American Action Network Tuesday alleging that the group violated its 501(c)4 status by working to elect Republicans

Last week, TWI’s video team brought you 90 seconds of insight into the 2010 campaign season. If you’re ready for more, check out, below the jump, this more

This morning, Democratic leaders will join White House officials to release a report outlining the economic case for enacting health care reform ASAP. In

I just talked with Steve Moore, the Club for Growth founder and current editorial page writer for The Wall Street Journal, to get a sense of how dedicated free

Changing how campaigns are financed could change the system, advocates say.

Perhaps emboldened by a rare victory over the gun lobby last week, a group of liberal senators introduced legislation Wednesday to prevent people convicted of

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The Take the Town Halls to DC coalition has put up video of its kick-off last night, with the Memphis Tea Party’s Mark Skoda introducing a speech by Rep.

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee, sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday calling

Democratic donors and operatives are wasting no time in meeting to hash out what went wrong in 2010 and what the strategy for fundraising should be moving

State Sen. Arthenia Joyner, D-Tampa (Pic by Minority Office, via flsenate.gov) State Sen

Federal prosecutions of undocumented immigrants have jumped this spring, flooding courtrooms in border states, according to a Syracuse University study released

As battles over anti-union bills continue in Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin, Ohio may be the first one to actually pass legislation that limits collective bargaining rights for public employee unions. The Ohio Senate narrowly approved such a bill on Wednesday. It includes changes unveiled by its Republican authors earlier this week that reinstate collective-bargaining powers for the state’s more than 300,000 firefighters, police officers, teachers and other public workers, but only on the issues of wages, hours and certain terms and conditions

By now you’ve probably seen the ghastly video, shot on a camera phone, of Taliban thugs flogging a teenage woman in Pakistan’s Swat valley for the simple act of