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May 1, 2006 - Usually, May Day -- celebrated world-wide as International Workers Day -- is ignored by most Americans. But this year promises to be different, thanks entirely to the growing movement for immigrant rights.

April 28, 2006 - The scandal season is still in full bloom, claiming ethically challenged lawmakers across the political aisle. Two recent items of a Southern flavor (hat tip to TPM Muckraker):

April 28, 2006 - Over at TAPPED, Matthew Yglesias notes a recent report by the Congressional Research Service (covered in the Washington Post) analyzing spending for the Iraq war. Apparently it's a slow read until the end:

April 27, 2006 - Congress has refused to increase the minimum wage in over a decade, even though the value of the minimum wage, thanks to inflation, is 24% less than it was in 1979, and 7.3 million workers would benefit from an increase.

April 27, 2006 - By most accounts Tony Snow is an upbeat, can-do sort of guy. He'll need to be as he steps into the position of White House press secretary, at a time when, as a local columnist writes, the administration is desperate to "turn around approval ratings that now are just above chicken pox."Snow got his start in the media in North Carolina, and a piece in a Raleigh News & Observer today is peppered with quotes about him being "classy," "generous," and "good-natured." There was this interesting reference to his politics:

April 26, 2006 - Back in January, we exposed how Mississippi-based defense contractor Northrop Grumman was making out in the wake of Katrina.

April 26, 2006 - The essence of the American dream is that every child born sh