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In a monthly online newsletter published last week on the Louisiana School Boards Association website, the teacher group alleges the Recovery School District in

Oil has been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon drilling site for more than two months now -- but TWI’s video team has done us the favor

While West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) has made no public comments yet on who he will pick tomorrow as an interim replacement for the late Sen. Robert Byrd

<p>Southern California farmer Chris Hurd is worried. As it is, the tomato crops on his family farm are struggling because of a dwindling water supply.

To the surprise of no one, the House failed today to override Bush’s veto of SCHIP, the popular children’s health care program. Foreseeing this

In the midst of the public outcry over $165 million in bonuses for AIG executives, Republicans are treading much more reluctantly around the government’s powers to demand contract changes to limit employee pay.

Yesterday’s New York Times focused attention on Florida’s other Senate candidate, Republican Marco Rubio. Tomorrow was supposed to be a high point for the

Late last year, TWI wrote about a landmark lawsuit in Cleveland, in which housing lawyers were trying to stop banks from dumping their rundown and neglected

Since my earlier post on Yaser Hamdi’s express agreement not to sue the United States for his indefinite detention and mistreatment, Cornell Law Professor

Via Jessica Grose, Alexandra Zavis has a frightening story in today’s Los Angeles Times about how the U.S. military is now sponsoring a “Daughters of

Now that Rep. Kendrick Meek’s (D-Fl.) poll numbers are improving in advance of his Aug. 24 Senate primary, President Obama finally decided that it might be a

PHOENIX -- Popular Arizona Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano is being mentioned as a potential top member of the Obama administration. Some say the former U.S. attorney would make a ’great’ attorney general.

Remember how I said in my piece this morning that the Center for American Progress’s new defense report largely embraces the tenets about the future of warfare

Al Qaeda and the Taliban are executing suspected U.S. informants in Pakistan in a campaign to terrorize potential spies and reinforce the authority of the

It causes states to do things for a while, says New America Foundation nuclear expert Jeffrey Lewis.

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s ranking member, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) just grilled Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on her ruling in Ricci v.

Even though things don’t look so good for former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) bid to keep Al Franken from being seated as Minnesota’s junior senator, Coleman’s

Greg Sargent reported yesterday that Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) wrote to Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, after The Washington Post