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As more states consider copying Arizona’s harsh anti-immigration law, at least one state’s GOP leaders decided against taking a stance on the measure. The

As you probably all know by now, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) conceded last night in her reelection battle for U.S. Senate, paving the way for her opponent,

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Jan. 12, 2009. The classic 1985 film Brewster’s

A caravan that environmentalist and renowned climate-change writer Bill Mckibben calls the “largest collective act of civil disobedience in the history of the climate movement” will roll through Boulder and Denver next week to protest the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast of Texas. Designed to carry oil from the tar sands production fields of Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf Coast, the nearest the pipeline comes to Colorado is Nebraska, but activists point out that tar sands oil already comes into Commerce City by pipeline and is then refined by Suncor Energy and sold as gasoline across Colorado at nearly 270 Shell and Phillips 66 stations.

Though foreign-policy experts worry that U.S. actions targeting Al Qaeda in autonomous tribal areas of Afghan-Pakistan border would destabilize Pakistan, Obama insists terrorists must be hunted down.

CNN covers Henrietta Hughes -- the newly homeless woman who told President Obama that she needed help at a town hall Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla. -- and it makes

The U.N. must reform, Clinton says. It has to become more transparent, more efficient and we will press for those changes. At the same time the United States

U.S. and Canadian environmental groups sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) today raising concerns about the

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan told Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) that while she admires former Justice Thurgood Marshall, she will be a different justice than he

Richard Florida has written influential works about the US society and economy and on Tuesday he turned his vision to the Great American Dental Divide. Blogging a recent Gallup study on oral hygiene in the United States, he pointed out that the dramatic if unsurprising findings underline the kind of deeply divided nation we all live in today.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has agreed to stay the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, the

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) talks about getting full disclosure for the Clinton Foundation’s donors. That’s correct, Senator, Clinton reiterates. Menendez

One of the more amusing quirks of the birther movement is the quality of the legal minds in whom Obama birth certificate obsessives are placing their trust

Compounding reports from the weekend that Democrats, one month out from election day, are experiencing a miniature resurgence of sorts is the news that the

The son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is running a stronger race than anyone expected for the seat of retiring Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.), himself a politician whose

U.S. Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia) says Republican Rep

While Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s being pilloried on the right for a 2001 speech in which she said her race and gender inevitably impact her

State Rep. Luis Garcia Jr., D-Miami (Pic by Mark Foley, via myfloridahouse.gov) State Rep

The real mystery is why it took so long for someone to buy the audiobook of Bill O’Reilly’s novel Those Who Trespass and turn the most sexually explicit clips

KDKA of Pittsburgh reports that according to local police, the McCain worker who claimed to have been attacked for her political convictions just confessed to

Records from the final months of Bill Richardson’s administration will be unsealed following an opinion from Attorney General Gary King’s office. According to the opinion from King’s office, Richardson’s public records should be subject to requests from the Inspection of Public Records Act.

The House oversight committee has spent the day unloading on Lehman Bros. CEO Richard Fuld -- his $480 million in compensation over the past eight years, his

It’s not just the government that’s considering bailing out the auto industry. Several utilities executives are considering ordering thousands of plug-in