The poll found that 59 percent of respondents view the GOP unfavorably, a record that has only shown up one other time in the poll’s results ... More »

Because of these strategies, tax experts say, Washington is forced to rely more and heavily on payroll taxes and individual income taxes to finance the government’s ... More »

Despite the fact that all potentially hazardous items were kept out of the students’ reach, school officials at Washington Irving Elementary School informed Doug ... More »

His message was clear when he told Democratic donors that an American economic revival is being held back by a “tendency in Washington to put politics ahead of ... More »

The current 35 percent corporate-tax rate is too high for companies to pay when bringing money back from overseas, Cook was quoted as saying by the Washington Post. More »

Based on our abstract ratings, we found that just over 4,000 papers took a position on the cause of global warming, 97.1% of which endorsed human-caused global warming. In ... More »

But when the Justice Department undermines the Constitution, recusal is no excuse. More »

“There is a divide within the party,” says Samuel Thernstrom, who served on President George W. Bush’s Council on Environmental Quality and is now a scholar of ... More »

I am truly sick, at this late date, of people wanting to have it both ways: calling for protected bike lanes and a bike-share system, demanding that cops step up ... More »

Here’s how this bill really is different from the others: It would allow all consumers to circumvent the digital locks on their mobile devices. Anyone could access and ... More »

Dissident shareholders are pressing once more for the media mogul Rupert Murdoch to step down as chairman of News Corporation. Shareholders from the US, UK and ... More »

Now, how bad or good you think oil sands are is all a matter of perspective. If you want to reduce oil imports from the Middle East, become North American Energy ... More »

Mark Ciavarella Jnr was ordered to pay $1.2m (£770,000) in restitution after he was found to be a “figurehead” in the conspiracy that saw thousands of children ... More »

The protesters are reportedly the activists from the Hefajat-e-Islam group, which blames some Internet users for blasphemy; accusing people of using their blogs to spread ... More »

Set up in the summer of 2010 shortly after this government came to office, and well known to be a pet project of David Cameron’s, it is essentially a little band of ... More »

In their report, Goodland and Anhang note that when you account for feed production, deforestation and animal waste, the livestock industry produces between 18 percent and ... More »

The decline raises doubt about whether honey bees can fulfill their crucial role in pollinating crops that play a role in about one-third of all food and beverages sold in ... More »

“At some point the planet can’t keep doing us a favor, particularly the terrestrial biosphere,” says Jim White, a biogeochemist at the University of Colorado Boulder. As ... More »