AIPAC prepares a mass lobbying effort to demand that stopping Iran's nuclear program be the Obama Administration's focus in the Middle East
Having staked the success of his presidency on the longstanding Democratic dream of universal health care, President Obama finally achieved victory on Sunday night
America's largest trial court system is undergoing severe shrinkage because of California's budget crisis. Is this a preview of things to come for the rest of the U.S.?
The pro-life Michigan Democrat held out until he got a deal with the President — and now allows historic legislation to take a critical step forward
Memories of American winemaking's pre-Prohibition history come alive in the revival of a "ghost" winery — and so does one murdered man's restless soul.
The Speaker was schooled in a family that valued political favors — and tit-for-tat. Now she doles out carrots and sticks for the most important vote of her career
My mother was on the line, going on about the announcement that Detroit Public Schools emergency financial manager Robert Bobb will close 41 school buildings by summer.
A quiet revolution has changed the status of American women; so what's new now?
The closing of a major runway at New York's JFK will delay flights nationwide for four months while it is reconstructed, just part of the long history of inconveniences, mishaps, and lost luggage at our nation's airports
From Google, Kansas, to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, the stories behind oddball place names are often more interesting than the names themselves
Photographer David Walter Banks takes the pulse of the nascent conservative movement
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