In an interview with Doug Gavel on Harvard's Kennedy School of Government website, Public Policy Lecturer Linda Bilmes -- one of the leading US experts in budgeting -- offers her take on the federal deficit.

From the article:

...the deficit over the next decade is $2 trillion higher...

On September 2, the senior Republican on the House Education Committee, and the chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee wrote a letter their President saying, "Questions have arisen about the purpose of this address and some of the specific tasks suggested for young students."

Writing letters to our...

In an op-ed published in Time last month, Republican political consultant Mike Murphy wrote, "[it] was a huge shock to the GOP when Barack Obama won Republican Indiana last year. The bigger news was how he did it. Latino voters delivered the state. Exit polls showed that they provided...

"It's incredibly messy, and the definitive rules of the game have yet to be written....we're seeing the medium invent itself in real time." --Clay Shirky

On Saturday, I joined a Facebook group called "100 Million Facebook members for Democracy in Iran" where Michael from Edinburgh had posted on a...

Here's a question for Sarah Palin: How many Mexicans live in Alaska? Or Puerto Ricans? Or Chileans? Or Latinos in general?

Tonight, I threw some search terms through Google but came up with no current data on Alaskan Latinos. However, I did find this 1997 report in the University...