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Part 1: Programs like Bush-initiated Hope Now allow government and lending industry to show they are doing something while not doing much

The Federal Reserve released its flow-of-funds report yesterday, and the document shows household net worth has fallen $11.4 trillion from its 2007 bubble-era

A year later, Obama’s popularity is nearly identical to Election Day. Canadians still distrust the United States. HBO will air a documentary tonight on

Daniel Indiviglio at The Atlantic lists five reasons to celebrate President Obama’s renewed commitment to nuclear energy. Let’s take a look at numbers one and

I’ve been leafing through BP’s Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response Plan, which was the subject of a widely read analysis by the Associated Press. Now that the oil

At least according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, the results of which were released over the weekend. From The Times: The national telephone

John Patrick Bedell, who shot and wounded two police officers near the Pentagon earlier this month, bought at least one of his 9 mm guns at a Nevada gun show,

The Securities and Exchange Commission last month warned oil spill victims who have received money under the Gulf Coast Claims Facility to beware of investment

The new Quinnipiac poll on Pennsylvania’s 2010 U.S. Senate race shows Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) thrashing Republican candidate Pat Toomey, but only narrowly

Commenting on the undisclosed cash that was spent in the 2010 elections and the campaign finance reform battles that lie ahead in Congress, Democracy 21

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is slated to testify next week before the House Energy & Commerce Committee on the role of the Interior Department in the

We’ve heard a lot about the potential health impacts of the oil spill, but not much has been said about the mental health impacts. BP announced Monday it is

Record another data point for the Obama administration’s military-civilian resource shift. In a speech yesterday to the still-leaderless USAID, Secretary of

Earlier this afternoon, Friends of the Earth, an environmental group that opposes the Democrats’ soon-to-be-voted-on climate change bill, shot out an email

Anti-drilling Democrats are already pouncing on today’s Gulf oil rig explosion to counter claims by the oil industry and some Republicans that the offshore

A Foreign Policy end-of-the-year list recovers this embarrassing Sept. 27 prediction from Charles Krauthammer, one that I missed when rounding up the

The stock market may be down 50 percent from a year ago, housing prices might be at 2003 levels, unemployment might be gaining momentum and recovery may be

Despite the Legislature’s failure to pass a bill this year to increase the percentage of votes needed to pass a voter initiated constitutional amendment, grassroots advocates recently voiced their opposition to the move they see as part of a trend by legislators to limit the power of the people. Those advocates say that making it more difficult for the people to circumvent the Legislature by changing the constitution by direct vote only gives Capitol lobbyists more power to make laws and reduces the influence of the average citizen.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who campaigned for Barack Obama during his election, is becoming increasingly displeased with the president’s stance on

Last night, Dave showed that the looming hold on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is no partisan matter, with Rep. Joe You Lie Wilson (R-S.C.) and former

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as