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During his campaign for Ted Kennedy's well-worn Senate seat, Scott Brown carried on about Democrats' “wasteful spending” of our tax dollars. Senators customarily bring home the bacon by attaching …

Last week, the U.S. Senate rejected a plan that would have broken up the nation's six largest banks firms into firms that could fail without wreaking havoc on the …

Two weeks ago, Goldman Sachs was on the Congressional hot seat, grilled for fraud in its sale of complicated financial products called “synthetic CDOs.” Last week the heat was …

Washington - The oil industry, not the federal agency that regulates it, plays a crucial role in writing the safety and environmental rules for offshore drilling, a role that …

Washington - “Lena Horne is coming on!”

Gulf oil spill adds pressure for release of “proprietary database” behind DOE's optimism. The U.S. Department of Energy has long disavowed peak oil theory: the notion that annual world …

I'm beginning to get the sense that, had President Obama chosen a different course in life and decided to be a boxer, he would have fought in the style …

Read Greg Palast's Latest Investigative Report on Arizona's Immigration Law: “Behind the Arizona Immigration Law: GOP Game to Swipe the November Election”

As attempts to stop the flood of oil in the Gulf of Mexico continues at the rate of 200,000 gallons a day and the full assessment of damage won't …

If President Obama has his way, Elena Kagan will replace John Paul Stevens - and the Supreme Court will move rightward. The nomination is very disturbing, especially because it's …