For years FairVote has drawn attention to the problem of lack of voter choice in our congressional elections. Our biannual reports "Dubious Democracy" and "Monopoly Poli...
And now an Arlen Specter update. Or how the senator just keeps going.
Says his health is "excellent," says the president was misled on the run-up to war and further inve...
The widening scandal focused on the activities of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff reveals just how deeply corrupt practices abound in official circles. Sure, money has...
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. took another step down the slippery slope last week, according to an Associated Press story. The federal agency announced it has assum...
When historians look back at the Iraq war, they will divide it into the pre- and post-Murtha eras.
Before U.S. Rep. John Murtha called on Nov. 17 for an American troop w...
The cliche that those who fail to heed the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them is in vogue more than ever these days, especially as the public sours on Iraq.
Ne...
Washington is engulfed in a bribery scandal that is washing away any memory of the idealistic spirit that sought to transform Congress a decade ago.
In 1995, Republicans...
Coretha Henderson made her 14-year-old daughter stand on an Oklahoma City street corner wearing a sign that said:
"I don't do my homework and I act up in school, so my p...
WASHINGTON -- It has taken a long time, but the Democrats finally have come close to defining a sensible common ground on the issue of Iraq.
They were badly divided from...
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana likes having the nation’s highest portion of workers — 20 percent — in manufacturing, so five days before Delphi, the Michigan-based automobile pa...
