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Confused about the financial crisis? The rise of mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps? So, it appears, were the credit ratings agencies -- the

The presence of methylmercury in the Florida Everglades has been documented by scientists and researchers in the area. The chemical can cause significant damage to developing fetuses and children, and leads to major hormonal imbalances in animals native to the Everglades. # The state’s environmental regulators have been slow to tackle the problem.

Piggybacking on Laura’s Rick Warren post, President-elect Obama has a chance to prove that he is, as he says, a fierce advocate for gay and lesbian Americans

As an addendum to Suemedha’s post, I’ll fill you in on the League of Conservation Voters’ assessment of Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain on environmental

As the conference committee reconciles the House and Senate versions of the financial regulatory reform bills, Sen. Richard Durbin’s (D-Ill.) amendment

<p>Iraq&rsquo;s national security adviser, Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, has an op-ed in The Washington Post <a

Interesting phone chat today with the Council on Foreign Relations’ Steve Biddle and Dan Markey, both of whom recently visited Afghanistan and shared some

Being a serial plagiarist may no longer be the professional equivalent of a hair shirt. Look at Vice President Joe Biden. Good thing for ex-Bush

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) asks about President Obama’s discussions about the pace of withdrawal from Iraq. Gates says they’re discussing transitioning forces

Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano came to Washington from Arizona, where she served as attorney general and governor and was politically aligned with

Via The Weekly Standard, a USA Today/Gallup poll finds support for Obama’s extended surge in Afghanistan: A narrow majority of Americans support President

I flipped on the radio last night and heard the famously dog-whistle-pitched voice of conservative pundit Mark Levin attacking President Barack Obama for ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion left 11 dead, and the hundreds of active oil and gas rigs off the nation’s shores are among the most dangerous workplaces in America.

Last night, sixteen auto workers from Detroit packed into four cars (American-made, of course) and drove to Washington, where they met up with colleagues from

I’ve been informed that Culture11, the five-month-old conservative web magazine launched by Bill Bennett, former Bush administration faith policy guru David

Let’s pretend that this Rush Limbaugh op-ed in the Wall Street Journal isn’t a (pretty funny) goof on the invented controversy about whether he’s preventing

There was only a five-minute window, between when the black cloud broke and the pilot and photographer could fly over Germantown, Md., on Sunday afternoon to