(Salon) – Independent of one’s stance on the rift between Michael Eric Dyson and Cornel West — a rift years in the making and now clearly...
Daniel Politi, SLATE WASHINGTON (Slate) — President Obama offered support for decriminalizing medical marijuana, as well as an overall change in the way the country...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — With a tone of outrage and eye-rolling dismissiveness, President Barack Obama and his White House team are working...
Steve Peoples, ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — The Republican Party’s most ambitious have stormed into New Hampshire for an early state showdown that highlighted...
LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The hardest sell for President Barack Obama will be persuading members of his own party to back a bipartisan...
SALLY HO, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal funding could be at stake as Common Core testing problems continued in Nevada, Montana and North Dakota,...
JILL COLVIN, Associated Press EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Likely presidential contender Jeb Bush said Thursday the Senate should confirm attorney general...
(Politico) – Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is warning he will use hardball floor tactics to force a vote on stalled attorney general nominee Loretta...
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former hip-hop journalist who became a White House intern in her 30s was named on Thursday as the...
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio launched a Republican presidential campaign this week with a promise to reject “the leaders and...
(The Washington Post) – Federal employees would be wise to ponder before posting and to think through their tweeting in order to avoid running afoul of government...
LISA LERER, Associated Press KEN THOMAS, Associated Press NORWALK, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton came to Iowa to give voters an intimate glance of who...
JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new Kansas law tells poor families that they can’t use cash assistance from the state to...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — The Army’s 2016 class of commanders for 31 of its top combat units has one black officer, a trend that the...
(Politicus USA) – At a campaign event in Iowa today, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton came out in support of a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal estate tax inspires a lot of heated political rhetoric for a tax that very few people actually...
(Politico) – Newark is building again. Yes, that Newark—the city in Jersey that burned after the ’67 riots, the one that helped to define “white flight,” that...
Washington (CNN) – Ben Carson will make a major announcement on May 4 in Detroit, his campaign tells CNN, setting the date and location for what’s...
GARY FINEOUT, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A snapshot of where Florida Sen. Marco Rubio stands on issues likely to be debated during the Republican...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A district judge agreed to halt the lethal injection of a Missouri death row inmate, but the decision...
(Salon) – The horrific story of the unarmed Walter Scott’s death at the hands of Officer Michael Slager continues to reverberate. Aside from the incontrovertible evidence on...
Philip Elliot and Brendan Farrington, ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI (AP) — Hoping to turn his relative youth into a benefit, Sen. Marco Rubio entered the presidential race...
John Eligon, THE NEW YORK TIMES FERGUSON, Mo. (The New York Times) — Like many people who dive into small-town politics, James W. Knowles III, the...
Todd Richmond, ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The story has played out the same way in Ferguson, Missouri, New York City and Milwaukee. A...
Christina Marcos, THE HILL WASHINGTON (The Hill) — Democratic Reps. Mark Pocan (Wis.) and Keith Ellison (Minn.) are urging Congress to approve a constitutional...
