Anne E. Kornblut's "Notes from the Cracked Ceiling" offers a dim view of the near-term political prospects of women.

Sensing a clear political opportunity, congressional Democrats are rushing to craft legislation to counter a Supreme Court ruling that they fear could lead to a flood of foreign spending on U.S. polit...

Frustrated Democrats began laying plans Friday to chip away at a landmark Supreme Court decision unleashing corporate expenditures in political campaigns, but the ruling's broad sweep will make it dif...

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday swept aside decades of legislative restrictions on the role of corporations in political campaigns, ruling that companies can dip into their treasuries to spend as...

Challenged by J. D. Hayworth from the airwaves, and soon in a primary, John McCain has moved starkly, and often awkwardly, to the right.

Mr. Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat, served 35 years in Congress and was alternately respected and feared by colleagues.

Republicans this month will bring President Obama a set of ideas and a more modest health care plan.

While the debate continues in Washington, health care systems nationwide struggle to offset money spent to treat patients who cannot afford to pay their bills.

President Obama’s nuanced approach on race is frustrating some black leaders and scholars.

The weather continues to wreak a little havoc in Washington.

Senator Richard Shelby from Alabama still insists that the administration needs to address new projects.

A lot of buzz has been generated by the handwritten notes Sarah Palin used on Saturday night.

The prospect of another snowstorm forces the House to reconsider votes planned for Tuesday.

The death of Representative John P. Murtha will put another House seat in play for the midterm elections.

GOP says they're open to compromise -- as long as Obama tears up the bills. Dems say, not a chance.

The Pennsylvania Democrat known as ''Captain Jack'' served four decades in the House.

He leads his nearest GOP competitor by 10 percent, according to a new poll of Alabama Republicans.

He's recalled as gruff ex-Marine, close friend.

The Alabama Republican had used the procedural roadblock to stall more than 70 appointments.

Few know Mailer deliberated, while lying in bed chasing an increasingly elusive capacity to sleep, how to intermingle flavors.

Through all of us doing our part, we can prove the researchers wrong who warn that this could be the first generation of children in 200 years to live a shorter lifespan than their parents, due to obe...

Palin had notes written on her hand and at the same moment she was making fun of Obama for using a teleprompter. It wouldn't surprise me if Ashton Kutcher popped out of the West Wing and told Obama he...

Too many progressive media voices believe the average media consumer makes a distinction between "political" content and "non-political" content, and that the way to match the righ...

If you want to understand Obamanomics one year out, look at the demand-side hole we're still in, the gargantuan boomer deficit we're heading for, and the mad-as-hell party these bad times have spawned...

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Here are three more emails from March 21 - 23, 2008, which I reproduce because of the Dish's long commitment to providing as m...

A reader writes: I am the mother of a 16 year-old girl with severe intellectual disabilities. I am disturbed by Mrs Palin's insincere comments when she speaks out for individuals with developmental de...

Reza Aslan sums up the pro-Green reaction to Ahmadi's "alarming" nuclear rhetoric from Sunday: These announcements are a joke; they cannot be taken seriously. Not only has Iran thus far barely managed...

Reihan checks in with the latest McCain campaign: McCain has scrambled to crush the [J.D. Hayworth] insurgency, raising money and rallying the troops with a robocall from newly minted Republican folk...

Ambers has a devastating and brilliant post on why Palin - "a blend of Nixon and Buchanan", with boobs and a Christianism now fused into Republicanism - is a lethal force in the land. I keep rememberi...

Presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty showed up to give a speech to GOP activists in Alabama on Friday. But he didn't just bring himself. He also carried with him a $100,000 check for the state Republican...

We've been reporting and writing a lot about Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) "shadow budget" over the last week. And I wanted to take a moment to explain some of the reasons why. As I've noted before, Ryan is...

Sarah Palin favorably cites Pat Buchanan column that says opposite of what she thinks it says. It dovetails almost seamlessly with Stephen Colbert's Sarah Palin "satire" last night. Watch. As long as...

If you can't make it nonstop to TPM every day, there's no better way to keep up on our biggest stories and breaking news than becoming a fan of TPM on Facebook. Just look: all your friends are doing i...

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC): A contribution from my leadership PAC is "a seal of conservative approval." That and the day's other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup....

Washington PostRepublicans say they'll work with Obama on GOP ideasUSA TodayRepublican leaders said today they can work with President Obama on a variety of items -- all of which happen to be long...

Florida Today (blog)Rubio smashes Crist in straw pollFlorida TodayFor a while there, it looked as if US Senate candidate Marco Rubio might win over the right-wing activists in Brevard County but not r...

WISHDan Coats' Supporters Trying To Gather Enough SignaturesWTVW(Indianapolis) -- Republicans on the Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis campus worked yesterday to get enough sig...

Experts Highlight How Latino Voters Will Influence 2010 ElectionsYubaNetWASHINGTON, DC Feb. 8, 2010 - The Latino vote has grown exponentially since 2000, changing the political landscape in more than...

Indian ExpressObama Approval Ratings Nosedive to New LowCleveland LeaderPresident Barack Obama's overall approval rating has hit a new low. According to the results of the Marist College survey re...

The president needs to tell the truth on taxes, entitlements, and how to really reform health care—before it's too late.

U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio hopes to harness the movement without getting burned.

Who's to blame for the political mess? You.

Big government's big shortfall.

Advice for Barack Obama from a self-proclaimed cracker.

A spokesman says Democratic Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a retired Marine Corps officer who became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, has died...

Rather than form a new party, the movement will remain leaderless and campaign for approved conservatives. And they all love Sarah Palin...

Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama will stop blocking Senate confirmation of about 70 government appointees nominated by President Barack Obama, his office said...

A North Carolina judge wants security officers to accompany a former John Edwards aide as he goes to retrieve a sex tape of his former boss.

The genteel atmosphere of the first day of the Tea Party convention was a far cry from the angry, raucous crowds usually associated with the right-wing protests...

David Plouffe has agreed to a seven-figure deal to write a book about last year's presidential election. “The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory” will...

Democrat Al Franken is asking the Minnesota governor and secretary of state to issue an election certificate that would let him take office in the Senate.

The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.

Democratic candidate Al Franken now holds a 49- vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman with almost all of the counting in Minnesota's Senate race done.

With the state Canvassing Board ready to award the last pile of votes in Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, Democrat Al Franken clung to a narrow lead over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. The final c...

AP - Republican legislative leaders are raising fresh doubts about any bipartisan agreement with President Barack Obama on health care unless he agrees to shelve bills already passed by Democrats in t...

AP - President Barack Obama acknowledged the deep partisan divisions gripping Congress, but he urged Republican and Democratic leaders Tuesday to cooperate on legislation that creates jobs.

AP - The nation's largest auto insurer said Tuesday it alerted federal safety regulators in late 2007 about a rise in reports of unexpected acceleration in Toyota vehicles, the latest warning sign to...

AP - Federal safety officials say they will look into complaints from Toyota Corolla drivers about difficulty with the steering on their vehicles.

Politico - For a president who ran on uplifting themes like change and hope, Barack Obama spends an awful lot of time scolding Americans about how he hopes they’ll change.

Historian suggests Richard Nixon’s last trick was influencing the 1996 presidential race.

But most still don’t know about the movement, says a new Washington Whispers poll.

It was a good week for atmospherics, but the big issues remain as implacable as ever.

Petition drive seeks to unseat Obama aide who criticized the pope’s comments on condoms and AIDS.

Curtis Roosevelt says the comparison is incorrect.

Following meeting with bipartisan House, Senate leaders Tuesday, Obama says jobs bill is something both parties can agree on. "Keeping in mind what's best for the American people... we should be able...

Obama signs a memorandum on childhood obesity Tuesday morning at the White House. REMARKS: Read them here.

First lady launches nation-wide campaign against childhood obesity, says she wants to "eliminate this problem" on GMA Tuesday. Click above to watch. HIGHLIGHTS: Read them here.

It won't clothe a single hungry, sick child, but...... ESSENTIAL READING: David Brooks cracks the code of the Obama White House.

King of CNN and Biden of the Naval Observatory get together Wednesday.

JIM GIBBONS DIVORCE INSANITY: America's worst governor and alcoholic adulterous sex-assaulter crook Jim Gibbons and his power-crazed wife Dawn are finally getting the divorce everybody always knew...

The great George W. Bush delivered the commencement address at Colorado's Air Force Academy today, the same day that his former hobbit slave was publicizing mean books about him. Here he is this...

Ooh looky it's another Kustomized Kampaign Trinket for you, the reader! For just $250, you can show the world that YOUR NAME totally supports JOHN MCCAIN. But are there any names or phrases that...

We usually don't like to encourage the comedy YouTube jokes because none of them are funny, or it's something you can watch on the TeeVee, later, on your sofa or whatever, eating your "carry out."...

SEE WHAT EVERYONE'S SAYING ABOUT SCOTT MCCLELLAN'S NEW #1 BOOK, GEORGE BUSH JR. MADE VAGUE ERRORS! "I would think if he harbored such deep feelings about things he wouldn't have and shouldn't have.

The Academy Award nominations were announced last week, and two movies came out on top: “Avatar” and “The Hurt Locker,” with nine nods apiece. At the box office, however, the s...

On December 5th, several hundred people gathered in Foley Square, in lower Manhattan, and withstood a drenching rainstorm for two hours in order to send a message to Attorney General Eric Holder. A Ju...

President Obama’s first State of the Union address came at the end of the most harrowing nine days of his young Administration. On January 19th, a Republican won the Massachusetts seat that had...

My cousin Maxo has died. The house that I called home during my visits to Haiti collapsed on top of him. Maxo was born on November 4, 1948, after three days of agonizing labor. “I felt,”...

My first immersion in the social movement that helped take Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat away from the Democrats, and may have derailed the President’s chief domestic initiative,...

A few years ago, few places on Earth were as hellish as Iraq’s Anbar Province. Spanning the country’s western desert, Anbar is best known by its major cities, Fallujah and Ramadi, both of...

By last summer, it was obvious that John Murtha did not have much time left in Congress. This was partly due to the efforts of Washington ethics cops and Western Pennsylvania Republicans, both of whom...

It was always going to be tricky for Congress to pass a big climate-change bill this year. And now, post-Scott Brown, the odds are looking even bleaker. A lot of panicky Dems are blanching at the thou...

WASHINGTON -- If President Obama gets to sign a health reform bill, as I believe he will, one reason may be Rep. Jay Inslee's difficult experience renovating his kitchen. He told his kitchen story at...

Sunday, February 7, 3:28 p.m. Among the convention’s several last-minute saves—opening the conference to media, replacing one speaker who fell ill and another who dropped last minute&mdash...

"O'Keefe's race problem" story goes astray on key detail...

Wanted: a newsmaker to give us the word...

A closer look at a couple more issues surrounding the conservative videographer...

Campaign finance experts chime in on a new era...

How cardiologists used the press...

Attorney General Eric Holder has come under fire, mostly from the Republican side of the aisle, for the decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court — and for the h...

The Nebraska Democrat says he will join with Republicans to oppose the nomination of Craig Becker to serve on the National Labor Relations Board. Nelson is the first Democrat to come out against the n...

Democratic Congressman John Murtha died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., after complications from gallbladder surgery. He was 77. Murtha represented southwestern Pennsylvania for...

More rumors about New York Gov. David Paterson, who insists he is not planning to resign.

Critics call the president's plan to hold a summit between Democrats and Republicans on Feb. 25 a purely political gambit designed to give the appearance of momentum for the health bill. Even supporte...

ABOUT THOSE PROSECUTION STATISTICS.... As baseless Republican criticism of administration counter-terrorism policies has intensified, the president's team has come up with some pretty straightforward...

TUESDAY'S CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP.... Today's installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn't generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers. * Any chance Illinois Stat...

TOO WEAK AND TOO TOUGH AT THE SAME TIME.... I suppose it was only a matter of time before far-right voices started criticizing President Obama for having too much success killing terrorists. Here's fo...

EVEN DUMBER THAN WE THOUGHT.... Former half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) once claimed to have valuable foreign policy insights to offer because Vladimir Putin had flown over her state. She wasn't...

GOP'S WALL STREET OUTREACH HAVING AN EFFECT.... It didn't generate nearly as much attention as Democrats had hoped, but the WSJ ran a provocative item late last week about Republicans trying to solidi...

Some kind of attack against Israel? A massive crackdown on the opposition?

The more of it, the more dangerous — and creepy — our lives become.

A bill before Congress would grant extraordinary power to activist judges to implement an agenda that usurps the power of parents.

Do directors and producers know that the special features often only serve to undermine their movies?

Despite the wrongheadedness behind the SEC's decisions, some unintended good may come of the regulations.

You'll still find our content at the same place, but you'll need to change your RSS feed to http://factcheck.org/feed/rss/...

The first lady, her mother and her children did stay in Europe for a private vacation after the president completed an overseas trip on official business. However, no taxpayer money was used for the f...

Facts vs. Obama...

Rep. Boehner and Rush Limbaugh got this wrong. The Realtors and home builders associations say there's no such requirement in the bill, as do we.

More ads claim that Congress is pushing a Canadian-style health care bill.

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Ezra thinks that the White House should give into Boehner's and Cantor's demands, "even the ones that don't make any sense," in return for an agreement on up-or-down votes in both the House and Senate...

If there's one thing that unites the Republican Party it's that the stimulus bill was a job-killing piece of legislation that was the worst thing in the whole entire world for the economy, right? Or m...

Republican Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama has dropped his "blanket hold" on all Obama administration nominees: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has dropped all but a handful of the 70-plus holds he pla...

Via John Aravosis, GOP House leadership says that if Obama won't agree to starting over from scratch, they won't come to his meeting. They are obviously trying to up the ante on this bill, calling for...

In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: Majority Leader Hoyer Statement on House Floor Schedule WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the fo...

That modern marvel, the Internet, has been buzzing for days about the secret plan by the House of Luce, aka Time Magazine, to license everyone who logs into a browser to search the web. Really. You ca...

This photo was taken Sunday by NASA's Terra Satellite. With the federal government shuttered for the second day in a row, Washington D.C. is now expecting another 10 or 20 inches to fall on Tuesday an...

The meeting has begun, between Republicans Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, Democrats Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, and the senior White House staff, including President Obama. This is th...

It's been a good couple weeks for Rep. Paul Ryan, the rising Republican star from Wisconsin, as his name is increasingly becoming synonymous with actual Republican policy. Obama called Ryan's budget p...

Hey Swamplanders. As Karen mentioned, I'm going to be chipping in around here. One of the things I plan on doing is a daily "Morning Must Reads" post to share a few things that we're currently followi...

Bipartisanship -- or the lack thereof -- is on full display today… Congressional Democratic and GOP leaders head to the White House to talk about the jobs bill… But Boehner and Cantor lay out cond...

The Washington Post: “Leading House Republicans raised the prospect Monday night that they might refuse to participate in President Obama's proposed health care summit if the White House chooses not...

"Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, a gruff ex-Marine who used his immense power in military spending to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to his hard-luck district and who became an...

“Several possible 2012 Republican contenders are using their political action committees to dole out large amounts of cash to an array of GOP members and candidates this cycle,” CQ writes. “Lead...

ARIZONA: The New York Times is the latest to look at John McCain’s shift to the right, given his August primary challenge. “Mr. McCain now sharply criticizes the bailout bill he voted for, pivoted...

In an opinion piece for USA Today (i.e., this was not a slip of the tongue), John Brennen, Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, writes that "Politically mo...

A new essay by James M. Buchanan, called "Why Economists Have No Clothes" [PDF] which asks "Why have economists had so little meaningful to say about the 2008 crises? Where and when did the ‘sci...

In a write-up following a debate with Chris Riley of the pro-Net neutrality group, Free Press, the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Barbara Esbin succinctly captures the essence of the Net neutra...

USA Today’s Joan Biskupic reports on what the Supreme Court’s widely-debated ruling in Citizens United v. F.E.C. might mean for the other politically-charged cases up for review this term: "...

From our March issue, Greg Beato explains why Starbucks has always been most vital, most interesting, and most revolutionary when at its most commercial—just like Seattle’s other great cultural...

Republicans haven't exactly been shy about bashing the stimulus bill that passed last year. "This is spending, not stimulus," Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said about it. "Rather than create jobs or...

There is something of a master narrative of the early Obama administration currently emerging into view, issue by issue. It goes like this: a given situation is in a disastrous state of disarray when...

Think Stephen Colbert was impressed by Sarah Palin's speech to Tea Party Nation and her, ahem, handy way of remembering her talking points? Think again:   The Co...

The nation's capital has been snowed out. A massive snowstorm ripped through Washington on Friday and Saturday, dumping nearly two feet all over the region, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes with...

The talk in New York political circles -- and, increasingly, in Washington -- is that there's some major New York Times story in the works about Gov. David Paterson. Just before the Super Bowl started...

As Senate Democrats look to pass a jobs bill before Presidents Day, experts say the debate is an opportunity to see if calls for bipartisanship will be answered.

South Carolina's first lady, Jenny Sanford, said on "Larry King Live" that writing her much-anticipated memoir of her husband's affair was a "cathartic" experience.

Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a longtime fixture on the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending, has died.

President Obama's bipartisan meeting on health care reform planned for February 25 will be broadcast live, a senior administration official said Monday.

Turn off the television, drink more water and serve smaller portions to fight childhood obesity, first lady Michelle Obama is urging as she launches a national campaign against childhood obesity.

Governor David Paterson defended himself Monday in an interview with the Associated Press. (CNN) - New York Gov. David Paterson defended himself Monday from rumors of womanizing and drug use, descr...

Sen. Ben Nelson will oppose President Obama's nominee for the National Labor Relations Board (CNN) - Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson joined Republican lawmakers in opposing President Obama's contro...

President Barack Obama holds a bipartisan meeting at the White House Tuesday morning. Jobs, the economy, and health care are expected to be on the agenda. Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama...

New York (CNN) - South Carolina's first lady, Jenny Sanford, said Monday that writing her much-anticipated memoir of her husband's affair was a "cathartic" and "cleansing" experience. In an interview...

Today's column is my last for The Washington Post. And the first thing I want to say is thank you. Thank you to all you readers, e-mailers, commenters, questioners, Facebook friends and Twitterers for...

It says a lot about this presidency that there is so much else going on that the public has almost forgotten that our troops are still fighting two wars. And yet, there is big trouble on both fronts.

Colum Lynch writes in The Washington Post: "The United Nations' top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try...

Jon Stewart shows a clip of Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer criticizing Obama for his restrained response to the Iranian crackdown. Stewart's response: "You can't believe Obama puts our natio...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry leads Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison by 11 points for the Republican nomination as he seeks re-election, according to a new PPP poll. And Debra Medina is surging in third place, trail...

Legislative leaders from both parties are meeting with President Obama now to discuss the economy, the first of the monthly bicameral, bipartisan meetings promised in the State of the Union address. M...

New Hampshire Democrats have been on a roll for years, particularly at the federal level in winning both House seats in 2006, a Senate race in 2008, and going blue for Democrats in the presidential el...

Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan (R) said over the weekend that he will not run for president in 2012. However, while Ryan has ruled out a national bid, he is still considering running for statewide office i...

The Ohio governor race really kicked off in the past month, as both John Kasich (R) and incumbent Ted Strickland (D) announced their running mates. Strickland also delivered his state-of-the-state add...