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Christine Fair of RAND runs through some of the reasons why militancy has grown in Pakistan despite something like $10 billion in mostly military aid coming

It’s been partly necessitated by the fact that the lawmakers themselves delayed the effective date of their bill that would do the same thing. That is, both

Today, more stories are adding detail to the debate over whether Elizabeth Warren should become the first head of the Consumer Financial Protection

The Washington Post’s Dan Balz yesterday quoted Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House Speaker from Georgia, warning that Obama’s support for sweeping

Interesting nugget from Playbook this morning on Warren Buffett, legendary investor and longtime supporter of higher taxes for the very wealthy: Buffett, a

From The Los Angeles Times: The Commerce Department said today that the nation’s gross domestic product, or total goods and services produced, contracted in

A Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday shows that 66 percent of likely U.S. voters say the country is heading in the wrong direction; 27 percent are

Liberals might be grumbling about the concessions needed to pass health care reform this year, but President Obama has no regrets. In an interview with The

A recent bill filed in both houses of the Tennessee legislature mirrors similar bills that have been debated in Texas and Oklahoma in recent months.

WRAL reports that Elizabeth Edwards passed away today at her home in Chapel Hill after a long bout with cancer. Elizabeth Edwards, the political wife whose

Speaking of the unclear cost of escalating the Afghanistan war, I see via David Dayen and Tim Fernholz that Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), the chairman of the House

The nation’s public health systems are ill-equipped to deal with a major nuclear emergency according to a 2010 analysis by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security

As the clock ticks on the government shutdown — set to go into effect at midnight tonight — one of the largest battles in Congress is over a series of

Republican lawmakers aren’t about to let this one slide. Following the Climategate scandal, which global warming skeptics say casts doubt on the science

In keeping with my pledge to write about climate science more often, I thought I’d share the latest climate data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Obama tried to carve out a place in the middle of the immigration debate during a speech at American University’s School of International Service today.