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Despite faulty science and misleading characterizations of sex, a sex education program delivered by an Austin crisis pregnancy center remains in use in 13

Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kans.) gets to deliver this week’s Republican weekly address, which includes this line: While, like most of you, I like the President

The FBI is investigating threats to Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.), an aye vote on health care. The threats go all the way up to a severed gas line at the house

The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, feeling the pressure from his diminishing popularity, has been hinting he wants to negotiate a deal to draw at least some

The environmental group Friends of the Earth released more emails between the U.S.

Congress has never before let federally extended unemployment benefits drop with an unemployment rate so high: That is the takeaway from a searing new report

A concentrated oil burn in the Gulf of Mexico, conducted in May 2010 (Pic by Deepwater Horizon Response, via Flickr) Though the state Department of Agriculture has begun ramping up its campaign to educate Floridians about the safety of gulf seafood, some remain unconvinced that it is as safe for consumption as the Food and Drug Administration has claimed. Just last week, the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonpartisan environmental advocacy group, filed a petition with the FDA, demanding that the agency “recognize the hazards posed by PAHs in seafood and set a health protective standard.” PAHs, or Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, are pollutants that have been shown to cause cancer in both animals and humans

Earlier this morning, President Obama announced a set of criteria for states to opt out of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law following a long period

Probably the strangest celebrity of the Tea Parties is Bob Basso, a motivational speaker who started recording YouTube videos as Thomas Paine and was briskly

Iowa partisans are going about the business of recruiting or nominating candidates for a special election in Iowa Senate District 18, but what’s at stake goes far beyond the boundaries of the small region in eastern Iowa. Republican Gov. Terry Branstad announced last week that he was appointing Sen.

In Boulder, there is little debate over the cause of climate change.

Illegal immigrants could get up to 300,000 construction jobs financed by the federal stimulus, reports USA Today. Based on studies conducted by two

As indicated yesterday, President Hamid Karzai has embraced a runoff presidential election in a Kabul press conference. The Afghan election commission has set

As I reported last week, the Government Accountability Office has been reviewing for months a protest against a contract to train the Afghan police that

As the debate over the possible lapse or extension of the Bush tax cuts heats up in anticipation of Congress’ post-election return next week, you might have

When future historians dissect the press coverage of the first black person to run as the presidential nominee of a major party, they will surely marvel at all

Almost 29 years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter delivered what is considered one of the worst speeches of his career. Americans were

One of the goals of the unanimous Republican no vote on the stimulus package Wednesday was producing news analyses like this one, from The New York

In congressional testimony on Friday, the federal Environmental Protection Agency was again criticized for its proposed numeric nutrient criteria, a set of standards to regulate pollution from nitrogen and phosphorus in Florida waterways. But EPA representatives defended the agency’s decision to implement the standards, arguing that they are needed for the health and safety of citizens and businesses struggling to survive in harsh economic times. # The decision to force the state to implement a stringent set of nutrient criteria came as the result of legislation — but both the EPA and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection had for years been attempting to draft something similar

Andrew Exum of the Center for a New American Security, one of the advisers for Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Afghanistan strategy review, doesn’t know if Ahmed Wali

Senate Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today asking her not to prejudge the outcome of an Obama administration review of a