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With the news that Citibank screens some of its clients for objectionable content -- and applies that screening process to gay-themed businesses -- many LGBT

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, finally put rumors to rest yesterday by confirming that he will not launch a campaign for U.S.

Last week, Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, both Republicans from Texas, urged the Obama administration to take action against the drug violence

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) just wrapped a presentation at the Heritage Foundation about how he expected conservative media to attempt discredit the Democrats’

A new piece by the Associated Press examines the increased scrutiny of for-profit schools, which have been subject to whistleblower lawsuits and, in Florida, an attorney general’s investigation. # For-profit schools (familiar names include Kaplan and University of Phoenix, among others) have received a bad rap for what many say are empty promises

Over at Hungry Hungry Hippos. they’ve taken me to task for my post Wednesday on efforts in Flint, Mich. to deal with abandoned and vacant properties by

If President-elect Barack Obama wants to win support for a package to help out struggling homeowners, he will have to help the public understand that we’re all affected by the mortgage crisis.

The rising tide of violence in Afghanistan identified in the United Nations’ most recent quarterly country report got the lion’s share of the press attention

Various interest groups are touting infrastructure investment as a particularly effective economic stimulus strategy because, they claim, such projects can

The effort within the McCain campaign’s upper ranks to pin Sen. John McCain’s loss of the presidential election on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is now in full swing,

As the fight over union rights continues to rage in Wisconsin, at least four other states have become battlegrounds as well. It has been reported that Iowa,

I’d bet that Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., is really mad now. After telling the government last week that it has no

The Obama administration’s move today to install strict new fuel efficiency and emission standards for the nation’s vehicles has left some Michigan Democrats in

The U.S. House of Representative’s move to strip federal funding from any program related in any way to abortion could have wide-reaching consequences

Party strategists hope to harness voter anger at unemployment with anti-spending rhetoric.

The New York Times and CoreLogic examined the data, and found that the rich are more likely to purposefully default on their mortgages -- to strategically

Though Sonia Sotomayor has strong support from Democrats, there’s been some concern that the National Rifle Association, which has opposed Sotomayor and

The Associated Press is reporting that Samantha Power will get a job on the National Security Council staff. (That’s via Laura Rozen and Matthew Yglesias.) It’s

The Brady Campaign, the anti-gun group that had experienced a rather tough run during the Bush administration, is pointing out that three Republican senators