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Politicians tend to portray the clean energy movement as a zero-sum game, but advances in China can boost the American economy.

Over at the liberal Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, LaDonna Pavetti is taking a look at federal welfare reform, which turns 15 this year. # She contends the program’s recent performance shows it can be a weak safety net. For one thing, as unemployment has surged, the number of people receiving temporary cash assistance through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, has increased only slightly , and at a slower rate than the number seeking food stamps.

The Interior Department today announced that it would require companies with leases in the Gulf of Mexico to permanently plug thousands of wells that are no

Remember how I said on Tuesday to keep a watch on what Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, says about Afghanistan now that

Two rulings today by the Minnesota Canvassing Board pushed Al Franken’s Senate campaign closer to electoral victory in the roller-coaster Minnesota recount,

Special interest groups of all stripes are taking advantage of the loosened limits on outside spending in this election cycle, but one group in particular still

Kenneth Feinberg, the independent administrator of the Gulf oil spill compensation fund, questioned today whether his model used for massive compensation

Rick Synder’s victory in yesterday’s competitive Michigan GOP gubernatorial primary is confirming pundits’ predictions that self-funded candidates might

The death of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) means that Congress has lost a longtime fixture and the military community has lost a prominent voice in the House, but

As The American Independent recently reported, Maryland groups against same-sex marriage legalization in the state are informing churches how to influence

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), the longtime top Democrat on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, has died at 77 years of age. Murtha, the subject of ethics

The Charleston Daily Mail had a long sit-down interview with Don Blankenship, the head of Virginia-based Massey Energy, which owns the Upper Big Branch Mine

A new ad hits Lou Dobbs for flirting with birtherism. Corporate PACs have an outsize influence among small-state senators. Want to pass health care

Detainees moving through immigration courts lack certain rights that most Americans take for granted, and among them is the right to legal counsel. Although a

No real surprise that progressive Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) would be appalled by the inspectors general report on warrantless surveillance, but this is news

Amid the debate over Sotomayor’s supposedly activist move joining the per curiam opinion in the reverse discrimination case of Ricci v. DeStefano, there’s

Just as the National Security Strategy places an international order based on binding global norms at the center of President Obama’s foreign policy, a United

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial America’s toughest sheriff who pushed for SB 1070 and parades inmates around in pink, faces another scandal: His office

U.S. population growth is petering out, with future growth to come mostly through immigration from developing countries, according to a report released today by

Last week’s Government Accountability Office report on the trafficking of U.S. guns to Mexico has inspired quite a backlash from gun enthusiasts who contend

In an interview yesterday with the Orange County Register, picked up by Jason Leopold at The Public Record, John Yoo says he doesn’t regret the substance of any