On Wednesday, The Daily Show presented a “brutal takedownâ€� of the CNBC network for providing false and uniformed assurances to investors about the health of the stock market. “If I had only followed CNBC’s advice, I’d have a million dollars today,” Stewart said, “pr...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will make her first visit to Israel next week. “The centerpiece of the secretary of state’s tour, announced Thursday by the State Department, will be a March 2 fund-raising conference for the Palestinians in Egypt.â€� The United States is expected to...

In June 2007, the Center for American Progress and Free Press released a report titled “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio.� It found that, of the radio stations owned by the five top commercial station owners, 91 percent of the total weekday talk radio programming on those station...

The pro-Israel, pro-peace group J Street is urging Congress to support a resolution (H. Res. 130) that expresses “support for the appointment of former Senator George Mitchell as Special Envoy for Middle East Peace.� The resolution is sponsored by Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA), and it currently h...

As ThinkProgress has noted, many intransigent right-wing conservatives are now placing blame at President Obama’s feet for not having acted in a bipartisan manner. For example, here’s what a spokesman for Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) — who just yesterday was taking pot shots at the labor union ...

At tonight’s White House press conference, NPR’s Mara Liasson asked President Obama what lessons he has learned through the process of negotiating with Republicans over the economic recovery package. Obama explained there’s a lot of people who “sort of want to test the limits...

For the past two months, President Obama has bent over backwards to act in a bipartisan manner to solicit Republican support for an economic recovery package. “The monopoly on good ideas does not belong to a single party,� Obama told Republican and Democratic leaders in a closed-door meeting bef...

DownWithTyranny reports that freshman Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, a congressman from the Orlando area, castigated his home state foe — Rush Limbaugh — for his unpatriotic remarks about Barack Obama: “Rush Limbaugh is a has-been hypocrite loser, who craves attention. His right-win...

In his confirmation hearings, Attorney General nominee Eric Holder declared “waterboarding is torture,� worrying conservatives that he might pursue criminal prosecutions of officials involved in detainee interrogations. In an interview with NPR today, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales sai...

The media is reporting that former Sen. George Mitchell, who handled the Northern Ireland peace process, is being eyed by the Obama administration to be a top diplomatic envoy to the Middle East. In 2001, Mitchell produced a report on the Middle East which recommended that Israel freeze all its sett...