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The New York Times came down hard on Minnesota Republicans in an editorial in today’s paper saying their “antitax radicalism” is “doing enormous damage at all levels.” It is preventing Wilmington, N.C., from buying a new fire truck, preventing the most vulnerable in dozens of states from receiving subsistence benefits, and may soon engulf the economy if the standoff in Washington does not end. In Minnesota, there is now a chance to draw a line and say, no further. The editorial argues that Minnesota Gov.

In my piece Wednesday about the Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Iraq, I quoted a senior State Department official about diplomatic culture. He was reacting

Dick Cheney’s continued insistence that the torture techniques used by the CIA and DOD on terror suspects, or associates of terror suspects, or anyone they

That’s what Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), who sponsored the bankruptcy reform bill that was slaughtered in the Senate Thursday, is saying. From The Hill: “I

The Census Bureau today released figures indicating that 46.3 million folks living in the U.S. lacked health care coverage in 2008, up from 45.7 million the

In his concession speech on the lawn of the Arizona Biltmore Tuesday night, Sen. John McCain graciously pledged his support to President-elect Barack

First it was health insurers; now it looks like coal companies are hoping to take advantage of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling earlier this year.

President Obama’s call to expand offshore drilling just a few weeks before the Deepwater Horizon calamity -- a call intended to rally Republicans behind a

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on March 26, 2009. An anonymous official quoted in

Nuclear power courts new friends as it pushes for subsidies in the Senate’s sweeping climate bill.

Scott Horton at Harper’s has posted a helpful roundup of the latest developments in the increasingly bizarre case of Binyam Mohamed in the United

He says all the right things, doesn’t he? Here’s President Obama from tonight’s speech, on American values, justice and torture: To overcome extremism,

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a Republican, took a markedly softer tone on illegal immigration during an interview yesterday than some of his fellow GOP

Rep. Charles Rangel, the animated but controversial head of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, has decided to step down -- at least temporarily -- from his

This morning, President Obama addressed today’s Department of Labor report showing the unemployment rate rose in August to 9.6 percent. Obama focused on the

Government officials are expected to announce today that the situation in the Gulf of Mexico may not be as dire as scientists once predicted. According to The

With Joe Miller looking like he might steal the Alaska GOP senate from Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), Jonathan Chait asks whether this means the Tea Party has put yet

Good help may be hard to find, but when it comes to security staff for this summer’s national political conventions, it’s apparently just this side

Rand Paul came out swinging against the Environmental Protection Agency this weekend, arguing that President Obama is forcing the EPA down out throats. The

Are we making up for our DOT pick? President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Rep. Hilda Solis to head the Dept. of Labor, according to reports. The California

Earlier this morning I referred to a written statement given to Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) from Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal