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The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel today released another slew of previously-classified legal memos, setting forth the department’s justifications

This poll by the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Advance in partnership with Pajamas Media doesn’t ask much that hasn’t appeared on other

How hard is it to watch a clip of an interview? Yesterday on ABC’s This Week, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano made the following observation

Gov. Rick Snyder tried to put a positive spin on the new Michigan law that reduces the length of state unemployment benefits from 26 to 20 weeks — the lowest in the nation.

Republican National Committee spokeswoman Gail Gitcho quickly poured cold water on birther lawyer Orly Taitz’s brag that Michael Steele had accepted her friend

Now that we’ve noted Adolfo Carrion’s interest in the job of secretary of Housing and Urban Development, we should also point out that in the housing world,

According to diplomats interviewed by The New York Times, Iran isn’t actually sending mixed messages on the deal reached in Vienna to process Iranian uranium

Rep. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and former Rep

Koch Industries is known to be a major funder of groups associated with the “anti-establishment” Tea Party. But that doesn’t mean the Kansas-based oil and

Mexican immigration to the United States has slowed to a trickle, according to the Mexican government. Migration from Mexico peaked in 2006 or 2007, when roughly one percent of the population left the country each year.

Colorado Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall have been among the more outspoken critics of the partisanship that seems to grip the nation’s capitol every time the words “debt” “deficit” or “spending cap” come up. On Friday, Bennet stood on a windswept knoll above Colorado Springs and spoke for seven minutes on the subject with MSNBC commentators

Roughly two decades ago, after abetting a lobbying scandal that cost the taxpayers billions and almost torpedoed his political career, Sen. John McCain

Pic via dbmathews.com With the U.S. Conference on AIDS just three days away, A Day with HIV in America , a project of Positively Aware , seeks to bring together a community of folks who live with HIV, to show their diversity and confront HIV stigmas

In the Great Recession, African-Americans experience disproportionately high rates of unemployment, and most stimulus funds have yet to make their way to

Arizona’s tourism industry has been hurting in the wake of SB 1070 boycotts, but one group has continued visiting the state: Conservative lawmakers who hope to

It’s worth considering what Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) have said about the possibility of today decision by the Minnesota

When Senate Republicans last week killed a $14-billion bailout of Detroit’s sputtering automakers, they reduced the debate to what they consider its essence: the power of organized labor.

In the days since a lone gunman opened fire in Arizona, killing six people and wounding an additional 13, roughly 2,000 Americans have lost their lives as a result of gun violence. That, according to President Barack Obama , is unacceptable.

I don’t sneer and point at everything Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says -- she clearly courts such a reaction every day -- but Ed Morrissey’s video of

With the prospect dimming that the energy bill being cobbled together behind closed doors in the Senate will include a cap on carbon, the wind industry is