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In 1966, Thomas Crocker developed the concept of cap-and-trade to reduce pollution through trading on the market. But he thinks it was better suited to acid rain than it would be to global warming.

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In addition to its presidential straw poll, the Values Voter Summit is handing out ballots for a potential 2010 Election Target List, which will be narrowed

Despite predictions that the Labor Department will announce Friday that the American economy, as a whole, added 200,000 jobs, that’s not necessarily completely

Politico has a piece running through the number of former Hill staffers-turned-lobbyists that hedge funds have hired to ensure that financial regulatory reform

This report is part of collaboration with WNYC’s “It’s a Free Country” to cover the 25 most captivating congressional races from around the

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 22, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER REVIEW

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) spoke yesterday at the Heritage Foundation about the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policy. (Video after the jump.) The

Deborah Mell, a Chicago Democrat that serves in the Illinois House of Representatives, married her seven-year partner, Christin Baker, during a civil ceremony in Davenport last week. As a legislator, Mell had fought for full civil marriage rights for gays and lesbians in her home state, but the body ultimately only granted civil union benefits. According to reporter Carol Marin of the Chicago Sun-Times , Mell has become the first high-profile elected official in Illinois to publicly enter into a same-sex marriage

We all knew it was coming. It was just a matter of when. After the election, it took all of six days -- a surprisingly long time, actually -- before a

Leading up to the Summer of Mercy 2.0, a nine-day protest against Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s late-term abortion practice in Germantown, Md., which begins Saturday

Five Republican presidential candidates hammered on regulations, taxes and President Obama at a manufacturing forum Tuesday in Iowa, calling for major cuts to those areas and aiming to pin the worldwide economic downturn on the president. Newt Gingrich Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich leveled particularly harsh criticism at Obama, saying he’s personally hurt the economy by attacking job creators.

It arrived, almost as an afterthought, in the final minutes of last month’s State of the Union Address: A call from President George W. Bush to allow the

Nothing shocking here. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took to the chamber floor this morning to decry the Democrats’ $848 billion health reform

COMMENTARY The talking heads pretty much got it wrong. It was an anti-gun ballot measure -- more than his race -- that cost Tom Bradley the California governorship.

The right plans to take aim at Obama’s bi-partisan image in 2010 with Supreme Court fodder.

A new database highlights the hand-in-glove relationship between private organizations and the Defense Department that has watchdog groups concerned.

Speaking of businesses making money from the downturn, The New York Times reports today on how the real estate industry is trying to cash in on the glut in

So, between health care reform and the New START nuclear reduction treaty with Russia, this is kind of a big week for President Obama. And you know who agrees?