Politics News

Resources in this category:

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://www.cagle.com/

Site devised by syndicated editorial cartoonist Daryl Cagle and his wife, a middle school teacher, with contributions from other editorial cartoonists. Updated regularly, the site is intended to provide material for teachers to use with students in discussion of current events. Lesson plans include scavenger hunts, tic tac toe and cartoon bingo, along with a teacher guide.

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

Documents in the News is a website provided by The University of Michigan Government Documents center. This site "identifies issues about government making news headlines and web sources with additional information." Taken from official sources, this page has full text documents on a wide variety of national and international topics such as: Yeltsin's Resignation, Bosnia, the Oklahoma City Bombing, AIDS in Africa.

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.movingideas.org/

"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.

The Washington Times
http://www.washtimes.com/

"A full-service, general interest daily newspaper in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1982, The Washington Times has quickly become one of the most-often quoted newspapers in the U.S. It has gained a reputation for hard-hitting investigative reporting and thorough coverage of politics and policy." News, politics and information from a conservative perspective.

Yahoo - Politics News
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=703&/

Get all the current politics headlines and summaries from Reuters News on Yahoo. Updated frequently.