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At the American Constitution Society blog, Rick Hasen breaks down the possible meanings of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to put a hold on gay

The Obama administration’s Making Home Affordable plan has fallen painfully short, a move to blame borrowers grows.

When Congress rushed to pass a $2 billion extension of the enormously popular Cash for Clunkers program earlier this month, there were few cheerleaders more

GUANTANAMO BAY -- We don’t know who the individual known as Interrogator #1 is. He hasn’t yet been called to testify for the defense, which hopes to be able

An economics professor at the University of California-Berkeley has filed a formal grievance to investigate the tenure of one of Berkeley’s most

Calling his company’s oil-well blowout in the Gulf a low-probability, high-impact episode, BP CEO Tony Hayward conceded this week that the energy giant was

The wait is over. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) just announced that she’ll support the $829 billion health reform bill soon to be voted on by the Senate Finance

The issue of foreign money finding its way into U.S. elections is always sure to get people’s blood boiling. When President Obama suggested that Americans for

Ah, for the days when conservatives boasted of Baghdad avenues named after the glorious George W. Bush. This is the scene in the Iraqi capitol today, in protest

On Friday, The Wall Street Journal revealed that major Wall Street banks regularly use repurchase-agreement, or repo, transactions to reduce their debt levels

Via our sister site, The Minnesota Independent. As the McCain campaign circles the wagons around it’s likely vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

President Obama kicked off efforts to rally the Democratic base and, especially, young people last night with a speech at the University of Wisconsin. Following

There’s been a good deal of response to my post yesterday about Mayor Sarah Palin’s enthusiasm in receiving federal money for Wasilla -- some of it from from

The much-derided amendment by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) to gut the consumer financial protections from Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory

On Aug. 4, President Obama’s birthday, WorldNetDaily released and began shipping A Question of Eligibility. It’s an hour-long documentary produced by an

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), who unveiled this week a stand-alone bill that would require a certain percentage of the country’s energy to come from renewable

The Republican candidate in New York’s 20th Congressional District special election, Jim Tedisco -- who loudly denounced negative ads in his race against

Louisiana Lieutenant Gov. Scott Angelle railed against the Obama administration’s moratorium on offshore drilling at a rally today in Lafayette, La, calling the

So: $25 billion, five years and 17,000 U.S. trainer troops to yield 400,000 total Afghan soldiers and cops. That’s Center for a New American Security president

For the second time this week, TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, this time to pick apart the GOP’s problematic pledge to