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Paul Curry is out of work. His unemployment claim hasn’t yet been ruled on

In 15 minutes it gets underway: Attorney General Eric Holder’s first big round of testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee since the right began raising

After I wrote my story this morning on the National Tea Party Convention and the troubles the movement’s been having as it moves into the political big time, I

So says Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), head of the Environment and Public Works Committee, who announced this afternoon that the panel will hold hearings on

Still smarting from the Senate’s failure to pass climate legislation or even a scaled-down energy bill this year, environmentalists are huddling to come up with

Detroit’s auto executives might be in Washington pleading for billions in taxpayer bailout cash, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to give up a

The big macroeconomic news today is that the United States’ GDP grew at a 3.2 percent per year pace in the first quarter -- the third straight quarter of strong

Via Ben Smith, we see Rudy Giuliani pondering a political comeback on the heels of a gay marriage bill in New York. This will create a grass-roots movement.

This afternoon, the House failed to pass a standalone bill that would have extended federal unemployment insurance benefits. Last week, the jobs bill pending in

Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee have come up with all sorts of approaches designed to kill the Democrats’ plans to expand Medicaid to cover most

Five years ago, an epidemic caused by a previously unknown coronavirus, known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), swept through China and then the

Despite relying on a metric education scholars have called “volatile” and “incomplete,” the Los Angeles Times was given a journalism award for its

The debate over how to modernize the nation’s international spying laws in the midst of its so-called war on terror was stepped up a notch last Friday,

Starting in January, the maximum number of weeks someone can receive state unemployment benefits in Florida will fall from 26 weeks to 23.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) might be hating on Leon Panetta, but Rep. Rush Holt, the progressive New Jersey congressman who chairs the House Select

Foreign Policy replies to my skepticism at the idea of Russia and China backing an oil-embargo package on the Iranian regime with this recent piece by

Senate Republicans are reportedly preparing legislation that would allow schools to privatize instructional services. The Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals reports that Senate Education Committee chair Phil Pavlov (R-St. Clair) is preparing an education reform package that would allow school districts to hire teachers through a private company and avoid expenses associated with union jobs

Some science bloggers are alarmed by predictions in the news that President-elect Barack Obama intends to appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the

An ambitious bill that would offer grants and subsidies to communities that adopt quicker and more efficient methods of installing solar panels was introduced

The National Organization for Marriage is very, very good at pouring salt in the wound after gay marriage defeats. Here’s the full text of the release from

For the first time since Gallup began polling the public on the issue, a majority of Republicans back the establishment of a third political party. Although