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The Hill has a great piece this morning revealing how some powerful Democrats have lobbied the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation urging bailout funds for

The chair of the Senate Committee on Higher Education has filed a comprehensive public information request for documents related to university proposals created

One of the major turning points of 2006 with regard to the Iraq war was the so-called Generals’ Revolt, in which a group of respected and recently retired

A coalition of 32 groups, including the League of Conservation Voters, the National Wildlife Federation and Audubon Nebraska, have written a letter to Sec.

Last week, Fannie Mae announced it lost $1.2 billion in the second quarter and asked the Treasury Department for an additional $1.5 billion to see it through.

Rep. Chip Cravaack is a top target of Democrats and reproductive rights advocates in 2012 even if the Republican freshman has yet to draw a challenger. Cravaack is one of 14 vulnerable Republicans the Democrats hope to unseat in 2012, and EMILY’s List has announced that Cravaack is one of its top five targets

Recently we noted that a popular kid’s movie, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, was set during the Great Depression and had a very topical theme: Bank

So suggests Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who ushered the Democrats’ health reform bill through the Senate HELP Committee last summer. Party leaders have been

I know you’ve all been sitting on your hands for the past 364 days in anticipation of this glorious holiday. But wait no longer -- today is World Toilet

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Michigan’s teachers are warning the public that the deep cuts to elementary and secondary education spending proposed by Gov. Snyder, combined with the newly signed Emergency Manager bill, pose a grave threat to the state’s education system. Gov.

The White House is touting it as “recovery summer” -- but it doesn’t feel that way to America’s young workers.

Via Abu Muqawama -- who has a Jay Z-like approach to his retirement from blogging -- here’s a C.J. Chivers piece in today’s New York Times about Russia’s

I spoke with George Barisich, a third generation shrimper, earlier this week about the his first shrimping trip since the moratorium on fishing that was imposed

The economy is basically writing a suicide note to the country. What’s a national security reporter to do? The first opportunity I had after coming back from

On Wednesday, Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly will try to quash Republican Gov. Robert McDonnell’s proposed amendment to ban state insurance

Just a day after the Environmental Protection Agency delayed a hearing in upstate New York on the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking,

United Nations climate change talks get underway next week in Tianjin, China. In advance of the talks, international development group Oxfam is calling for

The conservative opposition to President Obama’s agenda faces a new challenge today when a Senate subcommittee chaired Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) holds a

After years of telling the country that setting a date for withdrawal from Iraq would lead to total disaster -- "I believe setting a deadline for

North Carolina’s new anti-abortion law, the “Women’s Right to Know Act,” goes into effect today minus a controversial provision that requires women to

For reforming housing finance, there remain more questions than answers -- a fact highlighted at yesterday’s Future of Housing Finance conference at the