What Happened After Congress Passed a Climate Change Law? Very Little
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has failed to set up a body that would make recommendations on how to deal with rising seas.
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Don’t Blame Voters for the Tea Party or the Government Shutdown
Constituents in Tea Party districts demanded conservative stances from their elected officials, but that didn't need to include destructive or potentially catastrophic tactics.
Who Actually Won During the Last Government Shutdown?
It's mostly the younger members of Congress who are pushing for a shutdown of the federal government this week. Do they need a history lesson about what happened in the winter of 1995-96?
Odd Science: What Looks Like a Big Goose Egg May Actually Be Golden
Hey member of Congress: Honk if you like basic science research!
Who Is the United States at War With? That’s Classified Information
President Obama has repeatedly said the U.S. is targeting Al Qaeda and “associated forces.” But the government won’t say who those forces are.
Remember When the Patriot Act Debate Was All About Library Records?
The early debate around a key provision wasn’t about anything like mass collection of phone records.
That Lingering Whiff of Scandal Lasts About 4 Years
If politicians can survive the initial storm over their bad deeds, it takes roughly four years before voters will forgive and forget.
Mass Surveillance in America: A History of Loosening Laws and Practices
Surveillance in the name of intelligence gathering is nothing new. Here's a look back at significant developments over the past 30-plus years.
The IRS’s Tea Party Tax Row: How ‘Exclusively’ Became ‘Primarily’
Tax-exemption guru Ellen Aprill delves into the language behind some of the IRS's activities and finds that cracking the “macaroni monopoly” set the table for today’s Tea Party tax scandal.
The Congressional War on the Social Sciences
There's nothing wrong with requiring accountability from government-sponsored science. But when policymakers' questions misjudge the role that science plays, we have a problem.