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Pumping that golden elixir — corn-ethanol — into the gas tank can do a world of good, or so goes the argument. It relieves the U.S. from dependency on foreign oil, some reports say, and it reduces the pollution spewed out the tailpipe

In my piece a few weeks ago about the rudderlessness of GOP foreign policy, I mentioned a National Journal item reporting that several of the neoconservative

I just talked to Joshua Muravchik, a former American Enterprise Institute scholar who was fired last year in what Jacob Heilbrunn described as a purge of

One thing that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) wants in hand when he calls Philip Zelikow to testify next Wednesday: the memo Zelikow wrote in 2005 as an aide

During a recent retreat featuring a cast of influential conservatives, Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his support for a controversial Ohio bill seeking to

Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kervorkian has died at the age of 83 after a long battle with kidney and heart problems. His attorney Mayer Morganroth tells the Free Press that Kervorkian died as the result of “pulmonary thrombosis when a blood clot from his leg broke free and lodged in his heart.” Kervorkian made headlines in the 90s when he assisted or was present at 130 suicides of terminally ill residents of the state. That advocacy led to a 1999 conviction on second degree murder charges.

Check out this authentic-frontier-gibberish from Bernard Henri-Levy: From these three certainties, considered together, arises a clear obligation: aiding and

A new peer-reviewed study published by the National Academy of Sciences shows a link between hydrofracking wells to obtain natural gas and contamination of drinking water supplies — particularly with methane, which can even make drinking water flammable. ProPublica reports : For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire… The research was conducted by four scientists at Duke University

According to credit rating agency Fitch Ratings, Ohio’s decision to overturn its contentious anti-collective-bargaining law will have little effect on its

When President Barack Obama addresses the nation and a joint session of Congress to unveil steps for job creation and the economy, there’s only one thing he needs to remember: go big.

Interviews with Republican House candidates likely to win their elections next month reveal a wide array of ideas, but few specifics or substantial cuts.

Ben Smith has a rose-colored look at a possible Senate run in New York by Mort Zuckerman, the 72-year-old media mogul and pundit who seems interested in Sen.

Just days after American Forces launched a targeted assault that killed Osama Bin Laden, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet asked nominees for counterterrorism posts in the Obama Administration how Bin Laden’s death would affect the flow of financing to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and how terrorist network overlap might complicate U.S

In state legislatures across the country, 916 measures were introduced through March 31 that in some way restricted abortion rights, according to the Guttmacher

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” -- George Bernard Shaw At The Minnesota Independent, TWI’s sister

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in conjunction with anti-abortion rights group Susan B. Anthony List and the Family Research Council, an

In the face of the deepening financial crisis and the largest Wall Street swindle in history, President-elect Barack Obama acted swiftly to fill three key

The state’s second largest power provider – Tri-State Generation and Transmission – has an all-of-the-above approach to energy resources, but that doesn’t mean its interest in a coal plant expansion in Kansas is meant to transform the Westminster-based company into a larger regional power wholesaler. “We serve 44 co-ops in four states over 200,000 square miles,” Tri-State spokesman Jim Van Someren said Thursday