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Littwin: How did Cory Gardner end up on the same side...

In case you missed it, Cory Gardner was all over the Sunday news shows. At first glance, it seemed like vintage Cory, with Gardner...

Littwin: As Hurricane Irma hits, how do you explain climate-change deniers...

I have a two-year-old grandson who is fascinated by, and a little afraid of, thunder and lightning. When he wakes up in the middle...

Obama to take Earth Day climate-change discussion to low-lying swing-state Florida

President Obama this weekend taped an address on climate change for Wednesday's 45th anniversary of Earth Day. He plans to take his climate message...

Footage from the Florida climate denial frontline

This is what political denial looks like in Florida, where Republican Gov. Rick Scott has allegedly banned state officials from uttering the term "climate...

Wiretap: Republican immigration ‘strategery’ grows more tragi-comic

From Florida comes a peek at the kind of wriggling strategery we can expect from the Republican Party on immigration reform over the next, what, decade or so? Dreamers there won a comically hedging boost this week. Meantime, in Texas...

Vast number of unregistered eligible Latino voters could decide election in...

In 2008 Barack Obama defeated John McCain in Colorado by roughly 215,000 votes. A new Center for American Progress study demonstrates that the number of unregistered but eligible Latino voters in the state is greater than the number of votes that decided the presidential contest-- and that that is the case in most of the battleground states in the country.

Pam Tebow to speak at Values Voters Summit

Pam Tebow, mother of Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, will speak at this year's Values Voters Summit.

How Big Sugar gets what it wants from Congress

Many of the most influential American agricultural interests are headquartered in specific parts of the country: The majority of peanuts come from Georgia, corn from Iowa and sugar from Florida. But even though agricultural interests have a significant presence in only a small number of congressional districts, they play an inordinately large role in the political landscape of the entire country.

VIDEO: Thousands join Perry-led ‘Response’ in prayer for Christian revival in...

Following months of hype, speculation and protesting, tens of thousands of worshipers gathered in Houston’s Reliant Stadium Saturday to join Gov. Rick Perry for “The Response,” a prayer and fast event headlined by a who’s-who of major — and sometimes controversial — evangelical Christian leaders.
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