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For months, congressional leaders and the White House have skirted the possibility of a second economic stimulus package, saying they wanted to allow time for

Music fan and CIA Director Mike Hayden released this statement to the agency in the wake of President Obama’s interrogations/detentions

In a groundbreaking ruling today that directly contradicts the Bush and Obama administration’s insistence that detainees held by the U.S. government at the

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After President Obama outlined an ambitiously reasonable cap-and-trade program for reducing carbon emissions in his budget proposal last week, the White House

The Washington Post has a good piece today about the Pentagon’s new Minerva initiative. Minerva is an effort to bridge the gap between social science and

The Virginia Legislature passed a health care bill Wednesday that bans private insurance providers from covering abortions if they participate in a state health

Jonathan Chait has a good, long review of three books about the New Deal that can be read next to my story last month on the influence of Amity Shlaes and her

Tom Theobald’s voice quavers with urgency when he talks about honey bees. The small-time commercial beekeeper sounds distressed, even fearful, when he makes

For more on the systemic failures in contracting that contribute to firms like Blackwater getting more and more security contracts after, like, killing

On Wednesday, Mitt Romney’s campaign announced that the former Massachusetts governor would not be attending a presidential forum hosted by Sen. Jim Demint

Frederick Douglass Foundation Chairman Timothy F. Johnson opened the second day of the conservative group’s annual leadership summit with some words of

The New York Times reports: The concern with the method BP chose, the document said, was that if the cement around the casing pipe did not seal properly, gases

The BP Deepwater Horizon spill pumping oil into the Gulf of Mexico looks certain to damage local service economies while leaving the energy industry unscathed,

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As politicians call for increased border security, the joint U.S.-Mexican government effort to stem the flow of guns into Mexico has been delayed significantly

Though research supports thrust of Reid’s politically incorrect comment, Republicans stay on message.

A new Democracy Corps/Third Way poll bills itself as a wake-up call for Democrats on national security. Last May, Democracy Corps found that Obama’s election

As the head of the Chamber of Commerce’s Environment, Technology and Regulatory Affairs Division, Kovacs wields considerable power as a lead voice for the

Just released from Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s office: Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair announced today that Ambassador

The foreclosure crisis is far from over. Rather, as this chart from Daniel Indiviglio at The Atlantic shows, it is in some ways just peaking. Last month, banks

In Texas, a bill to renew a five-year-old Medicaid women’s health program that is due to expire in December is under threat from passage, all given that