Archive for November, 2011

High above San Francisco Bay, Stan Cooper can get away from it all in his private plane. His five-decade passion for flying once threatened to upend his personal and professional life — because of his own mistakes, and those of the government. It is a tale of accountability, one the Supreme Court is poised to tackle with oral arguments Wednesday.

Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday on a previously unannounced trip to Iraq, according to reporters traveling with the vice president.

Six years ago, the backers of the $1 billion FutureGen project imagined a public-private partnership to produce a first-of-its-kind, zero-emissions coal-fired power plant in Mattoon, Ill.

The project found backers the world over willing to put their…

Afghanistan's president asked Pakistan to reconsider its decision on Tuesday to boycott an upcoming conference on the future of Afghanistan.

Call it the ultimate in military logistics. As land routes from Pakistan into Afghanistan are cut, sabotaged or otherwise interrupted, the U.S. military has developed alternative railroad routes that make the Orient Express look like a branch line.

If there’s any Republican presidential candidate who can afford to spend precious time and money focusing on winning in Florida, it’s the one who campaigned in the state Tuesday.

Florida is the only early primary state Mitt Romney plans to visit this…

After years of giving other people nicknames, I finally get one of my own (one that’s printable) in what is perhaps the coolest music video in the history of Chicago.

In it, I sport a dashing a cowboy hat. Naturally it’s white, because I’m the good guy….

LZ Granderson: Republicans vow to repeal health care reform, but what options do they offer those who can't afford health care — many of whom are their base?