The Capitol Police Chief in Madison just held a press conference: no arrests, the protestors can stay in the Capitol building tonight. Read our report.

Speaker Boehner: I’ll decide whether to defend DOMA in court by the end of this week.

New report: The United States has wasted tens of billions of dollars on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And the self-proclaimed “most transparent Member of Congress” is …

Bushie Kyle Sampson, of U.S. attorney scandal fame, has finally secured his license to practice law in D.C. after a two-year fight.

It’s tough being a Southern history revisionist. Just ask Haley Barbour.

Jon Taplin explains how disruptive networks are challenging centralized authority everywhere.

Gallup and Rasmussen get pretty much exactly opposite results on the government shutdown question.

Moody’s says the new GOP budget plan would only leave to a mere 700,000 jobs lost.

I mentioned once before here that back in early 2004 the press person for a little-known state senator from Illinois named Barack Obama emailed me at TPM and asked if I could meet with the senator when he was next in DC. Because I always have my finger on the pulse of American politics and can magically sense what’s coming next over the horizon, I never got back to them. I don’t really remember whether I blew it off or simply forgot to get back to them. And as those who know me well can probably attest, it’s often very difficult to distinguish the two.

But now it turns out I missed the boat on another brush with greatness. Read More