Are Super PACs the New Lobbying Firms?
Trevor Potter, Stephen Colbert's lawyer, predicts an expanded role for the organizations.
Trevor Potter, Stephen Colbert's lawyer, predicts an expanded role for the organizations.
The ex-chancellor finds rare common ground with the head of the American Federation of Teachers.
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The president says criticism of the U.N. ambassador over her role in the aftermath of the Libya incident is "outrageous."
Forget the Gang of Eight -- for compromise, all that matters is the president and the speaker.
Lately, both Republicans and Democrats have warmed to this element of the Romney tax plan. The ex-Treasury secretary says it's not enough.
Policy makers who want to go back to earlier spending levels are ignoring the hard truth about the ways the world has changed.
At the opening event of The Atlantic's Washington Ideas Forum, the rock star activist told Georgetown students how to help Africa without being condescending.
Nancy Pelosi was voted the first woman to lead a party in Congress—just before a decade of growth among women in power.
Each year it is held, the Washington Ideas Forum brings together influential figures from the worlds of politics, business and academia in hopes that…
Innovative companies have improved nearly every area of public life. So why are ideologues trying to keep them away from education?