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In the midst of a jobless recovery and credit-crunched financial sector, U.S. companies have been hoarding $1.9 trillion in cash. The Wall Street Journal

In Florida, 26.7 percent fewer new voters have registered this year than in 2006, along with 21.4 percent fewer in Maryland and 16.9 percent fewer in Tennessee.

In what many believe to be an early presidential campaign stop, former ambassador to China Jon Hunstman Jr. met with potential donors on Tuesday in St

ANCHORAGE -- I just got off the phone with the very helpful city clerk at the Wasilla City Clerk’s office, Kristie Smithers, who is pulling some documents for

In the days since a lone gunman opened fire in Arizona, killing six people and wounding an additional 13, roughly 2,000 Americans have lost their lives as a result of gun violence. That, according to President Barack Obama , is unacceptable.

I don’t sneer and point at everything Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says -- she clearly courts such a reaction every day -- but Ed Morrissey’s video of

With the prospect dimming that the energy bill being cobbled together behind closed doors in the Senate will include a cap on carbon, the wind industry is

Time has a shocking immigration story in its Aug. 27 issue about an undocumented woman originally from Oaxaca, Mexico, who was reported to the Department of

The ballots are still out, but Saul Anuzis staffers are assuming that Michael Steele will win. Their 20 holdouts in the last round were mainly northeastern

A funny thing is happening on the way to the altar, at least in New York. The bulk of the money to finance a campaign to legalize gay marriage in the state is coming from conservative wealthy Republicans

Groups advocating for greater transparency and accountability in government have long advocated for stricter standards dictating who must register as a lobbyist

The National League of Cities, a nonprofit that represents 19,000 towns and cities with a combined population of 220 million, released a report indicating

At today’s House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on military commissions, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), apparently under the impression that a debate about the

After my wrap-up piece on the defense budget was published, Lockheed Martin’s spokesman for the F-22 Raptor program, Rob Fuller, got back to me with a statement

Previewing next week’s 47-nation Washington conference on nuclear security, senior National Security Council aides Gary Samore and Ben Rhodes told reporters

The American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry trade association, quickly followed news of a new rapid response system being developed by four of the

In February, I did some reporting about how it was far from clear whether the Obama administration embraced the proposition that public diplomacy is a national

So much for John Brennan, the former CIA official who wasn’t actually an advocate of torture but who was pilloried for being so in the blogosphere. The

Retreat is not an option, says Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.). We must continue to drill.

Testing conducted by Halliburton weeks before the Macondo well blowout indicated that the cement to be used to secure the well casing was unstable, staff for