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After facing a barrage of attacks aired by outside right-wing groups, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) is getting a bit of help in his Senate race in the form of a

If you read the stories in The Wall Street Journal last week or The New York Times this week about campaign contributions from financial companies, you might

Former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, a Democratic national-security eminence certain to have the new administration’s ear, kicks off a panel on

Perhaps the strangest thing about the National Tea Party Convention’s quasi-blackout on media coverage is the innocuous nature of the stuff organizers don’t

In 2009, Wall Street gave out $20 billion in bonuses. Here’s how that money could have been spent instead. The Senate is sitting on 290 bills the House has

A group whose founding members include powerhouses in Texas higher education announced its formation in the wake of controversies over university proposals

Maybe it was the allusion to chickenman. Maybe it was simply bad communication.

Isakson silent on death of end-of-life provision. The Chicago Tribune’s creditors mount a coup against Zell. Will U.S. withdrawal stabilize

NPR’s report this morning that the Brookings Institution’s Benjamin Wittes has proposed what’s expected to be a highly influential plan for preventive

Just how many terrorists have American civilian courts convicted? The Justice Department is happy to let you know. In filings provided to the congressional

It’s the last bit of news that his colleagues want to hear, but House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday floated the possibility that Congress

In four hours of testimony before the House oversight committee, the former Fed chairman admitted that his belief that markets will self-regulate was flawed. But as the hearing wore on, he was back to his old confident self, fending off calls for more regulation.

In three Congressional hearings this spring, Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.) carefully laid out the case against the Pentagon’s long-range missile defense

GUANTANAMO BAY -- The only time the courtroom has cleared in Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing so far was for a 20-minute stretch on Saturday morning while the

I caught up with Hannah Giles, co-star of the ACORN sting videos, after she accepted one of 10 Buckley Awards handed out in the XPAC lounge for young

In a congressional hearing today, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan admitted that his flawed economic philosophy contributed to the financial

When horticulturist and retired teaching assistant Emma Kinnard had trouble securing water for the children’s garden she coordinates in Benton Harbor she asked the city’s emergency manager, Joe Harris, for help. “He told me that water was the least of his concerns,” she said.

Just out from the office of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is this statement applauding President Obama’s move to expand offshore oil

The Minnesota AFL-CIO, the state’s labor federation, voted on Monday to oppose a ballot measure that would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the Minnesota Constitution. The vote of the general board was unanimous, and the AFF-CIO is the first organization in the labor movement in Minnesota to come out against the amendment, which will be on the ballot in 2012