News in Brief Oil Spill Fouls Up Climate Bill A tenuous compromise that promised to move a U.S. climate bill forward may be part of the Deepwater Horizon’s collateral damage. Emily Badger
News in Brief Waiting for the Train Wreck Bob Bennett's fall in Utah adds evidence to research showing polarization truly is the worst it's ever been in Washington, D.C. Emily Badger
News in Brief Obama Has Gone Contest Crazy The White House is using competition as a soft-power method to drive change from offices to schools to statehouses and beyond. Emily Badger
Education Avoiding Teacher Layoffs With an Education Bailout As hundreds of thousands of teachers and staffers brace for layoffs, there might be a federal bailout in their future, too. Emily Badger
Social Justice Uncle Sam’s Hand on Your Salt Shaker If I'm going to help pay your health care bills, you could at least try and eat better. Emily Badger
News in Brief Anti-Census Sound and Fury Produced Little Despite the heavy breathing about the constitutionally mandated U.S. Census this year, participation rates are pretty high. Emily Badger
Education How to Hold a World of Tweets The U.S. Library of Congress is blazing a trail in determining how to store an ever-expanding trove of information that never had physical form. Emily Badger
Environment Launching Pad: Obama Gives Space Plans Some Gravity President Obama visited Cape Canaveral to address his critics and clarify his canceling of the Constellation program meant to send Americans back to the moon, and his vision for the future of space exploration. Emily Badger
News in Brief Merely Qualified Need Not Apply When did being a qualified eminent jurist of the president's choosing become insufficient to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court? Emily Badger
News in Brief Court Decision Could Lead FCC to Redefine Internet A good day in court for Internet providers may lead regulators to a nuclear option those providers dread. Emily Badger