Holder Floats Possibility of Racial Profiling Suit Against Arizona  —  Attorney General Eric Holder speaks, Friday, June 11, 2010, at the Richard B. Russell Federal Courthouse in Atlanta.  (AP)  —  Attorney General Eric Holder, just days after filing a federal lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law …

Axelrod: ‘Patchwork’ of state laws would ‘dillute’ federal border efforts  —  White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod on Sunday defended the administration's lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law, saying state laws such as the controversial one in the border state “dillute” federal efforts to secure the border.

Democratic governors point finger at D.C.  —  BOSTON - Democratic governors facing grim budget choices, lingering unemployment and angry voters are pointing a finger at their colleagues in Democratic-controlled Washington to explain this year's toxic political climate.

‘The Crisis at Which We Are Arrived’  —  Don't fear the Tea Parties. … We are not now quite at a founding moment, or even a re-founding moment.  But we have arrived at a genuine crisis, or a set of crises, and we may well be at a decisive moment for the country.  —  This sense of crisis is what animates the Tea Parties.

White House: Republicans could win control of House  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans could win control of the House of Representatives in elections in November, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs acknowledged on Sunday.  —  “There is no doubt there are enough seats at play …

Wall St. Hiring in Anticipation of an Economic Recovery  —  While much of the country remains fixated on the bleak employment picture, hiring is beginning to pick up in the place that led the economy into recession — Wall Street.  —  The shift underscores the remarkable recovery …

Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant  —  Wry and cranky, droll and cantankerous — that's the Mark Twain we think we know, thanks to reading “Huck Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” in high school.  But in his unexpurgated autobiography, whose first volume is about to be published a century after his death …

Netanyahu: Obama ‘might have the only real effect on Iran’  —  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made clear in an interview aired Sunday that he believes President Barack Obama is the key to stopping Iran's nuclear program.  —  “There's only been one time that Iran stopped the program …

New Keynesians and New Monetarists  —  What's the difference between a New Keynesian and a New Monetarist?  This sounds like I'm leading off to tell a joke (a duck walks into a bar...), but I'm not.  A New Keynesian thinks that the real interest rate is too high, while a New Monetarist thinks the real interest rate is too low.

Waiting for Gandhi  —  Despite being stoned and tear-gassed on this trip, I find a reed of hope here.  It's that some Palestinians are dabbling in a strategy of nonviolent resistance that just might be a game-changer.  —  The organizers hail the methods of Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. …