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Economists say the White House has been way too meek in tackling the racial disparities in the country’s unemployment rates.

The Department of Justice announced Monday that it would release one Yemeni detainee from Guantanamo Bay -- a 38-year-old doctor picked up in Afghanistan and

The Club for Growth is hustling to put up the signatories of its pledge to repeal whatever health care reform bill gets through Congress. The big names among

Want to get a crash course in all things Af-Pak without, like, going to Afghanistan or Pakistan? The Marine Corps University at Quantico, Va., is the place to

In an email to supporters on Monday evening, the Minnesota Family Council (MFC) urged voters to consider incumbent Anoka-Hennepin School Board members Marci Anderson and Tom Heidemann because they support a district policy that limits discussion of LGBT issues in district schools. The policy, often dubbed the neutrality policy, is at the center of a nationwide discussion about suicide and anti-LGBT bullying and the subject of a lawsuit by six district students and their families. The family council wrote that this is a “critical election” for the board.

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) — a strong backer of funding for the Afghan war — is among the politicians that were illegally targeted by a U.S. Army psy-ops unit at Camp Eggers in Kabul last year, according to a new report

“The justice of man is rot,” which is why the Tea Party has swerved clear of traditional left-wing Hollywood and made its own contribution to the pop-culture U.S. history canon.

When Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) chose to relinquish his role in the Republican House leadership for the next session of Congress, the political punditry knew that

Politico’s spin-crunching machine busts a gear in this analysis of what Republicans are saying about Sen. Judd Gregg’s (R-N.H.) withdrawal of his nomination for

Republicans just successfully filibustered a defense authorization bill, killing an effort by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to attach the DREAM Act and a

With 99 days to the launch of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, the congressional pressure on the Bush administration to boycott the games over China’s many

While younger Republicans are hard at work trying to figure out how to make their party viable in a post-Bush political landscape, some older members of the

House Republicans are following up President Obama’s speech to their annual retreat with strikingly combative questions, with phrasing and numbers very familiar

President Obama’s scolding of the financial industry Thursday for awarding itself nearly $20 billion in bonuses during one of its worst years in decades pretty

The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions will provide six weeks less of unemployment benefits, up to 93 weeks, after June 12 because of the state’s declining unemployment rate. The state had provided 99 weeks of benefits since February thanks to federal assistance that kicked in when the state’s three-month unemployment rate was above 8.5 percent — unemployment was at 7.6 percent as of April 2011. Nationally, unemployment was at 9.1 percent as of May 2011, and only 54,000 jobs were added last month, down from three months of gains over 220,000

Speaking on Face the Nation on Sunday, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the House minority leader, said he would vote for the Obama administration’s proposal to let

Documents obtained by TWI reveal Iraqi linguists working for the U.S. military could be in peril under new disclosure rules fostered by the Status of Forces Agreement.

Yesterday in Michigan, John McCain reminded Republicans gathered for a town hall chat why he thinks Sarah Palin, his VP pick, is qualified in the foreign policy

From The Minnesota Independent: The National Republican Congressional Committee has added another Minnesota representative to its list of most vulnerable

The anti-gay, politically influential Christian organization the Indiana Family Institute (IFI) has been endorsed by the State of Indiana as “collaborative