As health-care costs skyrocket, the ranks of uninsured Americans are growing at their fastest rate ever. A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that 50.7 million people, or 16.7% of the population, h…
While most people support extending at least some of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts due to expire this year, a new Gallup/USA Today survey finds that Americans are deeply divided on which cuts should continue — and for how lo…
North Korea’s unprovoked artillery attack this week on the sparsely populated South Korean island of Yeonpyeong put a scare into the international community. What’s even more frightening is contemplating the despotic regime’s n…
You might think Yale economics professor William C. Fair is a bit crazy. After all, he’s predicting that President Obama will cruise to reelection in 2012. However, Fair has a good track record of predicting presidential outcom…
The Obama administration plans to put pressure on Congress in 2011 to move ahead on key technology policies such as patent reform and privacy.
“Much of the policy work is really contingent on congressional action or budgetary action, so you’re by def…