In times like these, with unemployment at its highest rate in more than a quarter century, President Obama's announcement that the White House will hold a jobs summit in December is welcome news. The nation's focus must be on the critical issue of job creation.

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The Apollo Alliance was launched in 2003 with the idea that we need a new Apollo mission that, similar to the Apollo moon landing, will restore America's technological leadership in the world and speak directly to the core values we share as Americans: our can-do spirit, our inherent optimism, and...

President Obama and the Congress have made tremendous strides over the last four months to speed the transition to a clean energy economy. The economic recovery package enacted in February and the appropriations bill approved in March invest more than $100 billion to scale up wind, solar, clean fuels, next...

Devastating cuts to schools and colleges. Aid to people with disabilities slashed. Thousands of firefighters and police officers cut loose. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger threatened these dire consequences if the voters turned their backs on his special-election ballot measures. With the decisive defeat of Propositions 1A through 1E on Tuesday, he...

Just over three months into the presidency of Barack Obama, the mood of the country has shifted dramatically from the deep pessimism that pervaded the nation at the turn of the year. More Americans now believe that the country is heading in the right direction than in the wrong direction...

When it comes to America's financial crisis, there's plenty of blame to go around. You don't have to dig far into the toxic sludge of bad credit, soaring deficits, fiscal mismanagement, and deregulation to see that all of it blends together to form a really big mess. And, you don't...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has just returned from a national fundraising tour, collecting money from wealthy Republican donors for his initiatives that he hopes to place before California voters in a November special election. As he left for his trip, his chief political consultant, Mike Murphy, predicted great success in what...