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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who lost the Alaska Republican Senate primary to Tea Party darling Joe Miller last month, is calling on the oil industry for

If they had been pulling out all the stops and working as hard as possible to get as many nominations as fast possible, said former associate counsel in the Bush White House Rachel Brand, they might have done the same as us.

As stated in Article V, Section 7 of the New Mexico Constitution, “when the governor travels outside New Mexico’s borders . . . the lieutenant governor shall act as governor.” Governor Susana Martinez recently told the Albuquerque Journal that she’d like to amend this 1948 amendment in such a way that she would retain all the authority of her office when traveling outside the state

Organized labor is continuing the push back against moves by the GOP-dominated state legislature to erode union rights in the state.

In a 200-page complaint filed in federal court Monday, dozens of former government contractors injured in Iraq and Afghanistan accuse their old employers and

The release of the Fed’s 2004 transcripts and my initial post have ginned up a number of posts and stories -- including ones by Ryan Grim, Yves Smith, Matt

Politico’s Jeanne Cummings has a fine analysis of the GOP’s 1993 all over again strategy for opposing President Obama and the Democrats, even if she assumes

Media snark from Milbank and Pitney. Learning to love from Sanford’s romance. Conyers and Conyers: partners in crime? Pseudo-facts good enough for

President Obama’s 2012 Department of Homeland Security budget proposal favors immigration enforcement increases for Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE.

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