Breaking News

After President Obama outlined an ambitiously reasonable cap-and-trade program for reducing carbon emissions in his budget proposal last week, the White House

A seemingly innocuous and mostly administrative bill to swap fire district land for U.S. Forest Service land in Boulder County won U.S.

Critics say the program, enacted by the stimulus, pads Wall Street profits and poses an excessive risk to bond issuers.

Minneapolis will not be hosting the 2012 Democratic National Convention, much to the dismay of city officials and the glee of some in the anti-war movement . Charlotte, N.C., beat out Minneapolis, St

An anecdote about a 2000 visit to a casino, recounted in a recent article in The New York Times that examined Sen. John McCain’s ties to the gambling industry,

The essential part of the California Supreme Court’s analysis in upholding Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage today is that the court decided that Prop 8

The Washington Post has a good piece today about the Pentagon’s new Minerva initiative. Minerva is an effort to bridge the gap between social science and

The Virginia Legislature passed a health care bill Wednesday that bans private insurance providers from covering abortions if they participate in a state health

According to a great story from The New York Times’ Peter Baker, last month Obama administration envoys went to Moscow -- apparently as part of this trip -- and

After much delay and speculation, the Obama administration has reportedly decided to try the alleged co-conspirators of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in

Throughout the February and March debates about Afghanistan, I wrote what I understood the emerging Obama administration approach to be: a counterinsurgency

A new poll by Public Policy Polling released Friday shows that if the election were held in late October, a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage,

Thursday saw a flurry activity over the Republican-controlled Senate’s passage of what critics are calling ‘license to bully’ legislation on Wednesday morning.

<p>Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), a ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, announced Thursday that his 14th year in Congress

Adversaries in politics, they come together to accept the election. Incumbent President Hamid Karzai cheered the successful conduct of the elections. His main

The administration is taking a bifurcated approach toward resuscitating the American auto industry, simultaneously allocating $5 billion to the auto parts

As TWI’s lightning-fast national security reporter Spencer Ackerman just wrote, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence just formally announced what we’ve

Jonathan Chait has a good, long review of three books about the New Deal that can be read next to my story last month on the influence of Amity Shlaes and her

Tom Theobald’s voice quavers with urgency when he talks about honey bees. The small-time commercial beekeeper sounds distressed, even fearful, when he makes

For more on the systemic failures in contracting that contribute to firms like Blackwater getting more and more security contracts after, like, killing

A key provision of Ohio’s anti-collective-bargaining law, Senate Bill 5, is that public employers have the right to make (PDF) “any and all reasonable rules