Politics News

Resources in this category:

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
http://www.aclu.org/

Comprehensive coverage of a variety of social issues. Find out what is happening in Congress, in the courts, and in the ACLU. Links to news, blogs, and podcasts.

C-SPAN's Campaign Network
http://www.campaignnetwork.org/Default.aspx

"C-SPAN serves up a level-headed companion site to its public affairs cable programming. Resources here are dedicated to U.S. electoral politics -- it's an aggregation point for TV schedules; archived speeches and interviews in various formats; and a search engine that lets you keyword search a video archive of presidential campaign coverage beginning in 1997. Additional features include analysis, educational activities, and links for all the candidates."

The Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/

Online edition of the newspaper, with global coverage, national news, audio updates and features geared to family life and community.

CNN.com - Inside Politics
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/

Get the latest in politics from Washington, political cartoons, focus issues, and the latest in election news.

Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index
http://cagle.msnbc.com/

Collection of political cartoons updated daily, hosted by MSNBC’s editorial cartoonist, Daryl Cagle. Includes Cagle’s political cartoon blog and a Teacher’s Guide with daily lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in Social Sciences, Art, Journalism and English at all levels.

Documents in the News
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnews.html

Provided by The University of Michigan's Government Documents Center, this searchable site allows patrons to view text of notable legislation.

FactCheck.org: Annenberg Political FactCheck
http://factcheck.org/

"A nonpartisan, nonprofit, 'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics." Site monitors the "factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases."

Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/

Liberal media watchdog group. "Media Matters for America is a Web-based not-for-profit, …progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. …Media Matters for America put in place… the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation – news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda – every day, in real time." The group is founded by former conservative journalist David Brock.

Minority Office: Committee on Government Reform
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/

Headed by Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman, the Committee on Government Reform investigates and compiles reports about the actions of the Bush Administration.

Moving Ideas Network: The Electronic Policy Network
http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/

"Connecting You to the Progressive Community". This site features policy-related news and commentaries in economics, politics, education, health policy, and media (both traditional and the Internet).

The Note - ABC News' The Note: First Source for Political News
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238

Like a weblog, but without feedback, The Note summarizes the morning news, i.e., it provides commentary, notification, and weblinks on the news that TV's ABC New's Political Unit, a group of news producers and researchers, thinks people should know about that morning.

The Online NewsHour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/

Public Broadcasting Service's online version of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Includes the current program, past programs, a search engine, and forums. In order to listen to the audio at this site you'll need Real Audio Player.

Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/

Headlines and Summaries from the Reuters and Associated Press newswires, and from other sources. Sections include Top Stories, Business, International, Sports, Science, Technology, Health, Travel, Entertainment, and Politics.