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New details have emerged on Louisiana’s $142.4 million literacy grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The program aims to expand child reading and

Iowa’s public universities are experiencing record enrollments but are being funded in real dollars at the same level as they were 30 years ago. In fact, no area of state government has taken more hits in funding over the past 10 years than Iowa’s Regent universities, according to the Legislative Services Agency. The universities made up most of the cuts through efficiency measures — staff and faculty reduction, closing programs, reducing janitorial services — but average tuition increases have been increasing while nationally they have declined

President Obama signed the 2010 defense appropriations bill into law this morning, following a brief bit of legislative theater by Republicans who wanted to

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) In a recently filed court document, a one-time business partner of Rep.

Matthew Yglesias writes about the Pakistani safe havens for al-Qaeda: t’s not a good idea to overrate the importance of “safe havens” in terms of

Though most of the Republican Party leadership is on record backing Bush-era spending, now they hope standing opposed to spending will be a successful path to victory in the 2010 election cycle.

Republicans are not well-equipped for the coming fight over health care, widely viewed as strong Democratic turf.

In the wake of yesterday’s Minnesota three-judge panel court decision that ratified Al Franken’s Senate victory, I see that the InTrade price for Norm Coleman

Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm has some harsh words for GOP candidates for president Tuesday after Chrysler announced it had paid back its debt to the government. On her Facebook page, Granholm posted the following: “But it wasn’t just Mitt Romney—Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich and scores of Republicans opposed the effort to save the American automobile industry.

Speaking to Newark Star-Ledger columnist Bob Braun, Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) goes to the absolute last place the CIA wants to go: Holt said he believes the

To adapt, clumsily, one of the more memorable quips of what used to be called the War on Terror: in Afghanistan, we set up the military command structure that

One of the lead researchers on the Human Genome Project has turned his talents in another direction, taking just two months to sequence a cannabis genome. Kevin McKernan, founder of the Massachusetts firm Medicinal Genomics did it not to help stoners get stonier but as a leading effort to begin separating the medicinal qualities of marijuana from those elements that get people high. In other words, he did it to help create medicine for fighting cancer and shrinking tumors.

Sean Naylor at Army Times has an absolutely killer piece that goes into granular detail to explain how Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s team is structuring a program

Another Texas anti-abortion rights group is stirring up controversy in the Northeast with marketing materials targeting African-Americans. In late February, a

The seven-year-old old-line biweekly conservative magazine, which has been seeking a financial angel for a while, is finally buckling and going monthly. The

“Incentives quickly become penalties for those who can’t meet the requirements,” said Sue Nelson, vice president for federal advocacy at the American Heart Association.

Now that we’re past Labor Day, a number of candidates have started spending big money on ad buys selling their biographies and touting their accomplishments. In

Today the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that you can’t sue a manufacturer for a defective medical device if the Food and Drug Administration has already approved