Archive for February, 2011

After witnessing a vacuum of leadership and an apparent fecklessness in dealing with crises abroad during Jimmy Carter’s administration, some concluded the presidency was too big for one man.

Is this any way to run a government?

A new report blasts the United States government for wasting tens of billions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan by relying too much on contractors and doing too little to monitor their performance.

The battle over union rights has shifted the budget debate from Capitol Hill to states, rivaling the threat of a government shutdown in D.C. next week.

When some of the nation’s largest banks were bailed out by the government in 2008 at the beginning of the global financial crisis, “too big to fail” was a phrase commonly heard as Washington argued why it had to help.

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When homeless mothers in Sacramento, California, need food, counseling or support, they can come to a rectangle-shaped cinderblock building just a few blocks from the American River.

Politics is serious business, but not all the time.