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Barack Obama might not ever say that we live in a post-racial society, but his election was heralded by many as the beginning of an American era not bedeviled

In the annual St. Cloud State University Survey , 55 percent of Minnesotans surveyed say the state is on the wrong track, down one percent from last year.

Ben Bernanke is no Oracle at Delphi, but traders still act like all this banking stuff is very opaque.

It looks like the renewable energy standard is going to get a high-profile, bipartisan boost. Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) are

It’s clear now: When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) took to a podium just before 3 p.m. yesterday to announce a bicameral deal on the $789 billion

Why did Blackwater/Paravant’s personnel carry weapons in Afghanistan for personal use, anyway? Brian McCracken, the former Paravant vice president, conceded

It is a simple (and poll-tested) fact: Most people like the government services they themselves consume, and they’re less than keen on taxes. When governments

That headline might not sound like news, but the war between Media Matters and Andrew Breitbart has new developments every week. The liberal news watchdog group

Orrin Hatch announces he will vote against Elena Kagan’s confirmation. Michael Steele says he doesn’t think we should be fighting in

The Republican National Committee emails reporters President Obama’s comment that the stock market is sort of like a tracking poll in politics and that people

Remember when I reported that the Obama administration and its allies were looking to salve legitimacy concerns in the Afghan presidential election by

Although President Barack Obama ‘s joint address was billed as a proposal roll-out for the American economy and unemployment, there was a underlying theme of warning to those in Washington that everyday citizens are growing tired of partisan politics, bickering and stalemates. It remains unclear if the plan or the caution found favor.

Colorado’s coal industry is on fire lately, going after natural gas producers with gusto in the wake of last year’s controversial Clean Air, Clean Jobs Act , which requires Xcel Energy to convert several coal-fired power plants on Colorado’s Front Range over to natural gas or alternative fuel sources such as wind and solar. Gas is touted as burning up to 50 percent cleaner then coal and dramatically reducing carbon dioxide emissions as well as the amount of nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and mercury spewing into Colorado’s air.

The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel today released another slew of previously-classified legal memos, setting forth the department’s justifications

This poll by the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Advance in partnership with Pajamas Media doesn’t ask much that hasn’t appeared on other

How hard is it to watch a clip of an interview? Yesterday on ABC’s This Week, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano made the following observation

Gov. Rick Snyder tried to put a positive spin on the new Michigan law that reduces the length of state unemployment benefits from 26 to 20 weeks — the lowest in the nation.

Today, two companies -- ADP, a payroll processor, and Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement consultancy -- both reported employment numbers that

A rare joint talk Thursday exposed some differences their countries have with the Obama administration’s new strategy to confront extremism in South Asia, as well as with each other.

BP is paying Kenneth Feinberg and his law firm, Feinberg Rozen, $850,000 a month to administer the company’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund, Bloomberg

John Yoo should be fired, disbarred and prosecuted for war crimes, according to anti-war activists who greeted the University of California at Berkeley law