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Gov. Rick Snyder’s campaign to reduce obesity may be impeded by federal agricultural subsidies that make junk food cheaper than fruits and vegetables. In a new report — Apples to Twinkies: Comparing Federal Subsidies of Fresh Produce and Junk Food — the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan finds that between 1995 and 2010 Americans spent over $260 billion on agricultural subsidies, with most of the money going to commodity crops like corn and soybeans, which are processed into high fructose corn syrup and oil and used in snack foods

News that’s two days old but worth a second mention: District of Columbia Public Schools is instituting a standardized test that will gauge students’ health

On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider legislation designed to overhaul the nation’s criminal justice system by creating a commission to

Have the Democrats’ attacks on Crossroads GPS and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s shadowy financing hit or missed? Turns out they’ve done a little bit of

In a McCain campaign conference call with reporters this morning, Randy Scheunemann, senior foreign-policy adviser to Sen. John McCain, took a question from The

You know an op-ed’s going to be good when it starts out like this: FOR seven years I have remained silent about the false claims magnifying the

President Obama this morning called for a speedy nomination process for Elena Kagan during his speech announcing the Solicitor General as his choice to succeed

The Environmental Protection Agency released its guidance for determining the best technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at large facilities today --

A couple of weeks ago, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. military forces in the Middle East and South Asia, demurred on an attempt by David Gregory to

I’m a little tired of The Undecideds, The Swing Voters and all those People In The Middle -- but they do decide elections after the rest of us have made our

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today presented his long-awaited proposal to

Jill Iscol was giddy. She was scrunched up in a chair in an office of the apartment she and her husband -- the telecom giant Ken Iscol -- own on the Upper

An eclectic group of experts assessed the nuances of counterinsurgency and troop increases at a panel on Wednesday.

The administration will have to reconcile its new goals with the escalated war and unilateral right to assassinate terrorists around the world that it has also pursued.

To add some clarity and context to Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s disclosure this morning that the U.S. intelligence budget is $75 billion,

When is it fair to accuse a member of Congress of being a birther? I’m wrestling with this a little today. Jason Linkins calls Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.) a

For the first time in 12 years, there is a new leader at the helm of Michigan’s AFL-CIO union as outgoing President Mark Gaffney is replaced by Karla Swift.

A few weeks ago, Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, came together in rare bipartisan fashion

U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan told Congress Wednesday that his agency estimates that 82 percent of America’s public schools will be given