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The argument goes, if it costs more to drive, car-shoppers will opt for more efficient cars, giving the Big Three incentive to build them.

Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, was one of the more successful negotiators during last summer’s climate change

This morning, President Barack Obama held a press conference, the eighth of his tenure, and focused mostly on the economy. Here’s a rundown of what he had to

The percentage of homeowners either in foreclosure or late on a mortgage payment topped 13 percent nationwide in the second quarter of 2009, the Mortgage

Whether or not the Obama administration’s spending freeze is a hatchet or a scalpel -- see Rachel Maddow’s grilling of vice-presidential economist Jared

It’s gotten difficult to tell apart all of the Hari Seldon-ish organizations devoted to engineering a Republican/conservative comeback. Here’s a bluffer’s

In short, the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that the health care reconciliation bill moving through the upper chamber this week will have to go back to the

Just released from the White House: I welcome President Karzai’s statement today accepting the Independent Electoral Commission’s certification of the

When I returned from Atlanta to D.C. in November 2008, having wrapped up coverage of the Libertarian Party’s presidential campaign for Reason magazine, Spencer

Sen. John McCain has an op-ed in the St. Petersburg Times today about the potential government bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Here’s the first

Yesterday I mentioned, randomly, how attacking Democratic presidential candidates on guns is usually a ploy. The Feds won’t take away people’s guns, no

One of the highlights of today’s House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act was Judiciary Committee Chairman John

You know it’s not looking good for Sen. John McCain when the head of the University of Florida’s more than 1,000-strong Gators for McCain announced his

The New York Times dug through some new financial records to discover that Wall Street has been nearly as good to Larry Summers as Larry Summers is now being to

Erik Prince, heir to one of Michigan’s richest and most conservative families and founder of Blackwater, is still getting government contracts now that he sold off the nation’s largest private military company — but now those contracts are with the United Arab Emirates. The New York Times reports : Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital.

PoliticsUSA points out that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), whose 2012 budget proposal (PDF) presents significant cuts and alterations to welfare programs, put himself

TWI’s Laura McGann, our temporary Anchorage bureau chief, just posted an enlightening piece about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Though the GOP vice-presidential

Something else that’s interesting in Joe Klein’s interview with Sen. Barack Obama. Yesterday we saw John McCain severely misrepresent what the impending