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Yesterday, I highlighted the dark-horse campaign of Michael E. Arth for governor of Florida, pointing readers to the whimsical bio featured on his website. This

Giuliani’s decision not to run for Senate is great news terrible news for Gillibrand. After the brutal health care battle, senators are wary of tackling

In his State of the Union address in January, President Obama laid out a bold initiative to double the United States’ exports in five years, helping create

It’s a rhetorical gambit predicated on a mostly false hypothetical that pretty much assumes its conclusion: There’s a bomb set to go off but you don’t know

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman is filing live updates on the McChrystal-Eikenberry Afghanistan hearings; follow them here. Delegates to the Copenhagen summit will

Rep. Mark Critz (D-Pa.) managed to survive Tuesday’s Republican onslaught to win his first full term in the House. But it may also be his last: His district is likely to be eliminated by the Republican state government.

One more thing from Adm. Mullen’s Joint Forces Quarterly piece. There’s a brief discussion about how the Taliban optimizes the unity of communications and

It’s angry Tea Party town hall month in America and, in Arizona yesterday, Senator John McCain got a taste of the kind of crazy that colored Colorado’s

The U.S.-Mexico border is more secure than it’s ever been, according to current and former top border officials who appeared at a panel hosted by the Center

The former North Carolina senator kept himself in the spotlight as John Kerry’s running mate in 2004 and as a candidate for president in 2008. But his 2008 bid

A 2009 law that changed the way Texas levies taxes on chewing tobacco, raising the tax but shifting the burden onto smaller companies, matches other bills

Democratic congressional leaders are increasingly unhappy with how the $700 billion rescue plan is being implemented. They want banks to make more loans to consumers and businesses, not continue to pay dividends to shareholders. A storm of new regulations may be coming.

Exit polls indicate that jobs and the economy were the top issues on the minds of voters on Tuesday when they trotted off to the polls. While climate change and

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their monthly jobs report, which estimated that 80,000 new non-farm jobs were created during October, and

The Senate today voted against the U.S. House of Representatives budget proposal for the 2012 fiscal year, 40-57. The House bill was sponsored by Rep. Paul

Campaign finance reform advocates are still hoping that Congress will pass a bill that sheds light on the $126 million in undisclosed cash that was spent

As same-sex-marriage friends and foes gear up for another marriage battle in Maine in 2012, a soon-to-be released documentary about a 2009 voter referendum that

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education released the final criteria for its Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge — and it looks like Florida is still in jeopardy of losing eligibility for $100 million in federal education grants because of the state’s rejection of federal funds. # The final criteria for the competitive federal education grant includes a requirement that states must participate in a program funded through the Affordable Care Act

<p>Monday kicked off this week’s Trade Show at WIREC 2008, anticipated to be the U.S.’s largest renewable energy expo/business conference yet. The White

Cantor embraces bipartisanship on the GOP’s terms. Dems take advantage of their snow day. Sarah Palin needs help. Wall Street, speaking with its