Senator Joe Lieberman has pushed the health care debate to a level of absurdity that can't be ignored, Arianna argued on Tuesday evening. During her appearance on The Ed Show with Ed Schultz, Arianna took issue with the power bestowed upon the In...

According to a new Sienna poll, 47% of New Yorkers are disappointed by the Senate's vote on same-sex marriage. Most interestingly, 40% also say that their Senator's position on the issue will be the deciding factor on whom they choose to support for re-election...

On this day in 1773 (as you surely recall from Sister Herman Joseph’s fourth grade class), a group of Colonists, disguised as Indians, boarded 3 British ships at dockside in Boston Harbor. And, as you probably also recall, they threw tons of British tea into the Harbor. And, you probably learned, this was all done to protest the outrageously expensive British tea...

It hasn't been a fun day to be a progressive. The public option is dead. Medicare buy-in is dead. And so is much of our enthusiasm for the future of Health Care Reform. Yet with all of the eulogizing of the public option and arguing about whether...

Time magazine announced Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as its 2009 "Person of the Year" Wednesday. Bernanke will be featured on the cover of the magazine that hits stores Friday...

Rep. Murtha rested in a hospital Monday after being admitted the previous night. Washington (CNN) - U.S. Rep. John Murtha rested in a hospital Monday after being admitted the previous night due...

It's not clear what Hillary Clinton was aiming for exactly last Friday, when she warned Latin American countries "that if people want to flirt with Iran, they should take a look at what the...

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has a lesson for fellow legislators: wait until legislative proposals have been unveiled in writing before making final judgments (unless those proposals involve the...

Congress is making the final changes to a defense spending package, and it’s a doozy: The $626 billion bill includes money for several big-ticket weapons programs that the Obama administration...

Former British Prime Minsiter Tony Blair admitted this week that even without evidence that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction, he would have supported invading Iraq in...

Lieberman ready to back health care bill without Medicare expansion. WASHINGTON (CNN) - Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman said Tuesday he is prepared to back a comprehensive health care reform bill...

A new Quinnipiac poll says that appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is vulnerable to a primary challenge from outgoing New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson, who just came surprisingly...

The White House plans to announce Tuesday that a rural Illinois prison will be acquired by the federal government to become the new home for a limited number of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Administration officials as well as Illinoi...

Slowing the growth of health-care costs - "bending the curve,'' as it's become known - is one of the goals that reformers have in mind. The bills which Democratic leaders have pushed th...

The Washington, D.C., City Council voted Tuesday to legalize gay marriage in the nation's capital, handing supporters a victory after a string of recent defeats in Maine, New York and New Jersey. Mayor Adrian Fenty has pro...

Lord Monckton may have had it coming. The International Youth Climate Movement decided to confront the well-known climate change denier on camera in Copenhagen over the fact that he referred to youth advocating to stop climate change as "Hitler's Youth" last week...

I've heard people say that it's not fair to criticize the Democrats for botching health care reform because the Democrats never truly had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Sure, they have 60 votes in principle, the argument goes, but with Lieberman, Nelson, Landrieu, and Bayh counted as four of those votes, it's not really a solid 60...

The Senate health care bill is so compromised, some progressives argue, that it would be better to try to kill it than fight for its passage. In light of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to give in to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and agree to scrap a Medicare compromise, and with the public option already off the table, many ardent supporters of health care reform are giving up on the legislation...

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says world policymakers do not have to choose between a clean environment and economic growth. Schwarzengger said "we've proved that over and over again in California." Inter...

After the ratification of the Constitution, the First United States Congress met in Federal Hall in New York. Many of the delegates demanded a "bill of rights" that would guarantee individual liberties and freedoms in face of the powers granted to the Federal government. James Madison, the principle author of the Constitution and then a member of the US House of Representatives, initially opposed such an idea but fearing that the arguments of the anti-Federalists might lead to a rejection of the Constitutional project he then wrote and submitted 17 articles of amendment on June 8, 1789...