Gov. Tim Pawlenty made yet another appearance on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show yesterday. What's he doing this time? Trying not to piss off Rush Limbaugh....

Randy Barnett follows up his post on the appalling prevalence of creationists in the GOP, with a point I’ve also been hammering over and over: Defining “Creationism” Down. If your favorite candidate is on record favoring creationism as science to be taught in government schools, he...

Damned if they do, damned if they don't. Regardless of their actions on the stimulus plan, Republican governors are always wrong, at least according to MSNBC talk-show host Rachel Maddow. The ardently earnest Maddow demonstrated this on consecutive nights this week, first on Tuesday when Minnesota G...

If Bernie Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme screwed you over, it's time to get in line to make your claim....

Faced with a slow economy and a large deficit, Democrats in Washington are going to try to solve the problem by adding more than $1 trillion to the national debt. Many governors are faced with similar challenges, and some at least, are trying a different approach. One noteworthy example is Minnesota...

I was listening to Gov. Pawlenty's State of the State speech yesterday, as he gave an analogy of a family at a kitchen table, trying hard to budget themselves during these difficult economic times. I was struck by the loud and raucous applause given when Governor Pawlenty asked the legislature on be...

Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Hillary Rodham Clinton, two of the most influential members of the Senate, said goodbye to their colleagues yesterday, while the chamber welcomed Illinois's Roland W. Burris, a man it had tried to keep out....

Karl Bremer in the Minnesota Independent: Less than two months after he was elected in 2002, Norm Coleman used the power of his yet-to-be-assumed U.S. Senate office to try to leverage a presidential pardon for convicted money launderer and Tom Petters associate Frank Vennes Jr. And two years after t...

Photo illustration: Everett Bogue; Photos: Getty Images It’s easy enough to pinpoint exactly who this year’s Republican vice-presidential candidate should be. Ideally, John McCain’s running mate would have executive experience, yet still seem like a new face on the national politic...

The Fix's mom always wanted us to be a lawyer. And, while law school is not in the cards, we have always been interested in arguing both sides of a case, especially when it comes to politics....