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Mike’s excellent story today about the weak reforms of the payday lending industry proposed by onetime industry foe Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) details a

Here’s the OLC memo from May 30, 2005, which states that enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA are consistent with United States

An article in today’s New York Times about traditional big Democratic donors drawing back their support makes an interesting point about the disparity in the

Defense Secretary Bob Gates took a tour of the armed services’ war colleges last week to deliver the message that the Army, Navy and Air Force need to focus

The Nation adds a new perspective to my story from earlier this week about Pedro Guzman, a man fighting against deportation charges in Stewart Detention Center

Some good news on the birther front: a Deseret News/KSL-TV poll finds that only 9 percent of Utahns (13 percent of Republicans) don’t believe the president

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) Last week, a handful of House Republicans — including one Florida congressman — accidentally voted against a measure expressing disapproval of raising the country’s debt limit

It’s only a few minutes old, this news that the Minnesota Supreme Court, at long last, has ruled Al Franken the winner of last November’s Senate election. But

WASILLA, Alaska -- Earlier today, First Lady Laura Bush urged us to remember Gov. Sarah Palin’s record as mayor of her hometown from 1996-2002 when assessing

As we noted, the White House and Senate Democratic leaders yesterday killed legislation that would have significantly lowered prescription drug prices for

President Obama has named Fred H. Bartlit Jr. as chief counsel for The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, a

Despite new lobbying and ethics reforms, big business uses events like the political conventions to gain all-important access.

Senate Republicans realize that, barring some yet-unrevealed scandal, there’s little standing in the way of Sonia Sotomayor’s eventual placement on the Supreme

My story today highlights how Tea Party pressure is making it harder for Republican senators to sit on the sidelines in the lead-up to Tuesday’s Senate

That Afghanistan law essentially robbing women of anything resembling autonomy over their own bodies is worse than I thought: it’s charmingly focused on the

A central component of the Obama administration’s economic strategy was abandoned by the White House in the days leading up Senate vote, giving political cover to opposing Democrats.

As kind of a coda to the non-ambassador-to-Iraq-Tony-Zinni episode, I speculated at first about the optics of placing two generals -- Zinni and Karl Eikenberry

For the second day in a row, President-elect Barack Obama today emphasized the need for federal belt-tightening during a press conference. To help perform

At the Pentagon press briefing to roll out the Nuclear Posture Review -- read the entire document, all of it unclassified, here -- Defense Secretary Robert