Brian Beutler reports: Pelosi said afterward that there's a good chance that Congress will have a bill on the President's desk by Christmas. But asked by TPMDC whether she believed that, if given the choice, Obama would ultimately choose to e...

Recognizing the difficulty that death row inmates have in bringing innocence claims before the court, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) has introduced H.R. 3986, "The Effective Death Penalty Appeals Act." (Received by e-mail from Amnesty Internatio...

Ezra Klein writes: There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so much more than health care in any other country: because we pay so much more for each unit of care. As Halvorson explained, and academics and consultancies ha...

Scarecrow at Firedoglake explains the consequential difference between negotiated rates (in the House Health Care Reform Bill) and the Medicare +5% wanted by progressives: CBO estimated that a Public Option available only to the uninsured, self-...

The DEA issued this statement today on the DOJ revised policy on medical marijuana busts in states where it is legal: “DEA welcomes the issuance of these clarifying guidelines pertaining to the use of federal investigative and prosecutorial reso...