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The University of Texas system is developing a pilot program that would allow students to graduate a year earlier, condensing undergraduate education and

I’ll have a piece shortly on recent polling that shows that an increasing number of Americans are skeptical of the threat of global warming. Evidently,

Sen. John McCain, who has locked up the GOP nomination, was chased down in the parking lot of a Phoenix shopping mall today and persuaded to remove his

The Texas Republican Party unveiled its new platform today and it contains some very far-right provisions, to say the least. Media Matters has the full details,

More end zone dancing from the Republican National Committee chairman: “Tonight, Chris Christie exceeded all expectations by charging to victory in the heart

Everyone’s piling on Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele for his GQ interview, which can generously be read as a warm and fuzzy attempt to

The Washington Post’s story today about liberals who are frustrated that the Obama administration isn’t pressing harder to win confirmation for liberal-leaning

The Bank of America logo (Pic via blog.firstfoodbank.org) The Associated Press reports that Bank of America has completely back-peddled on its its plans to levy $5 debit card fees. The AP reports : The bank says in a statement that the decision to scrap the plan came after listening to customer feedback in recent weeks. The news comes after other major banks, including Chase and Wells Fargo, said last week that they were canceling tests of similar fees.

On today’s call with reporters, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele took credit for the RNC’s response to a new Democratic National Committee

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, which is conducting its own investigation into the CIA and torture,

It crushes the low-income and elderly, says Robert McIntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice.

Pontiac’s Emergency Manager Lou Schimmel has fired the city’s clerk and attorney and replaced the director of public works with an employee of United Water — the criminally-indicted French water company that has operated the city’s wastewater treatment system since June.

In his quick-turnaround book Right Now, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is notably less kind to former House candidate Dede Scozzafava

Ohio Governor John Kasich told reporters on Monday he was glad the fuss surrounding the veto referendum to repeal Senate Bill 5 had kept the pressure off the

This morning, our Minnesota colleague Paul Schmeltzer noted that a conservative attack line that the coverage of Ted Kennedy’s death would be a “Wellstone

Last week, J.P. Morgan announced that it made a first-quarter profit of $3.3 billion on revenue of $28.2 billion, meaning for every dollar of business the bank

As predicted, the Ames Straw Poll was a 2012 game changer, prompting former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to end his campaign and elevating U.S. Rep.

Ralph Hallow, the Washington Times’ crack reporter on the RNC, has a damaging scoop this morning on RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s side gig as a

Though several states, including Michigan, have decided to require natural gas companies to disclose the chemicals they use in hydrofracking, many of those state regs have loopholes in them.

Amid his noticeably robust travel agenda these days, Gov. Rick Perry plans to stop in Colorado later this month to deliver the keynote address at the Western

According to records from the U.S. Department of Education, Florida State University is experiencing high numbers of on-campus rape. # The Tallahassee-based school is one of three schools in the state’s capital with high rates.