A $100,000 grant isn't a big one at the Rockefeller Foundation. But the grant maker's decision to award that much to a thinly disguised effort to give businesses more influence in the New York City's mayor's race is both inappropriate and a waste of philanthropic resources.

Why is John and Heather's wedding and what John's studying now important? Why is remembering the philanthropic investment in transforming and liberalizing education so important?

Once again Republicans are ready to shut down the FAA to help a union-busting effort by Delta Airlines.

WASHINGTON — Another shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration is possible because lawmakers haven't resolved a labor issue that's holding...

We're reeling toward our ecological and political comeuppance in a state of narcissistic denial; there is too little public seriousness about the issues that face us.

During the past hundred years, [The New Republic] has continued to champion the principles that made Brandeis the greatest constitutional philosopher ...

Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) lashed out Friday against the Obama Administration's stance on environmental policy and coal power, an economic stapl...

WASHINGTON — The lawmakers now investigating Toyota's recall include a senator who was so eager to lure the Japanese automaker to his state that...

One of the Senate's foremost champions of the public insurance option re-asserted on Friday his opposition to a compromise approach that would establi...