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Daniel Gross at Slate checks in with a timely piece reminding us that people earn $250,000 or so a year are, in fact, rich. Gross feels the need to explain this

Now that I’ve praised Defense Secretary Robert Gates, let me highlight an issue on which he’s taking a lot of heat from progressives. Gates has relaxed

Rep. Michele Bachmann lashed out at First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday over her promotion of breastfeeding, particularly among black women, to curb obesity. On Laura Ingraham’s radio show, Bachmann said that Obama’s campaign — and an IRS change that makes breast pumps tax deductible — constituted a “nanny state” and that it was part of her “hard left agenda.” Michelle Obama said last week , “We’re working to promote breastfeeding, especially in the black community, where 40 per cent of our babies never get breastfed at all, even in the first weeks of life, and we know that babies that are breastfed are less likely to be obese as children.” The first lady wants to encourage employers to be more open to women who are breastfeeding.

According to news reports over the weekend, the relentless Spanish judge and human rights prosecutor, Baltasar Garzon, who first came to international attention

Expanded settlements in East Jerusalem are an insult to the United States, says the secretary of state.

Today was certainly a red-letter day for supporters of gay rights. In addition to the Vermont Legislature’s passage, and then veto-override, of a bill

Jeff Harris, of Beckley, W.Va., is an underground coal miner who once worked for Massey Energy. For that experience, he was on Capitol Hill this afternoon

President Obama raised $1 million for House Democrats last night at a fundraiser in Los Angeles at the home of John Wells, a producer of television shows such

The Right’s takeaway from Steve Kroft’s 60 Minutes interview with President Obama is this exchange. KROFT: You’re sitting here. And you’re laughing. You

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) may be a political also-ran, but he is also a genius at repackaging himself for the liberal media. His latest

The Center for Constitutional Rights, which has been a leading critic of the Bush administration’s interrogation tactics, is not pleased with today’s report

The Republican Party of Iowa and Fox News Channel announced details Tuesday for a presidential debate scheduled for the week before the Iowa Caucuses. While no specific date is given, the caucuses are scheduled for Feb

Here’s a video making the rounds on the right -- a compilation of outrageous scenes from 2002 and 2003 anti-war protests. The editor: Evan Coyne Maloney, a

In the little town of Postville in northeastern Iowa, the failure of the American immigration system was on display this weekend. Three members of the

This is the latest disappointment for environmentalists, who have seen hopes for cap and trade, a scaled-down utility-only cap and a renewable energy mandate dashed.

A host of progressive activists, Occupy Wall Streeters and union members rallied and marched from Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis to the Wells Fargo building Friday. The march, which led to a sit-in protest outside the bank’s headquarters, was spurred by what marchers defined as the unwillingness of the major banks, including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank, to address the continuing foreclosure crisis.

Here’s something that slipped under the radar yesterday. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan organization that tracks money in

Talking Points Memo reports that the McCain campaign is shifting its ad spending away from Colorado and states won by Sen. John Kerry in 2004 to those won by

Breaking news from The New York Times: Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were

There’s some truly historic intra-party bashing in Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.)’s rant to Kentucky reporters. On his majority leader, and fellow Kentucky

Draft legislation extending a number of key tax credits for the renewable energy sector is circulating around Capitol Hill this week. Renewable energy groups

In comments on a previous post, my friend M. Leblanc thinks my opposition to hot dog diplomacy is misguided: It’s like this: the local embassy (in my case,