Politics

July 3, 2006 - Books and science -- not exactly sacred items in Washington these days. Unions representing 10,000 Environmental Protection Agency scientists -- over half the agency's workforce -- sent a letter to Congress last Thursday protesting the Bush administration's proposed 80 percent cut in the agency's library budget.

June 30, 2006 - For a long moment, the Duke Lacrosse case was the national story, bursting from the squalid swamps of Nancy Grace sensationalism to dominate news cycles everywhere. Clearly, the story hit a nerve.

June 28, 2006 - David Sirota has some thoughts on the current debate raging in the U.S. Senate:

June 23, 2006 - North Carolina is poised to take a very important step towards "clean elections," reforms that get special interest money out, and a people's voice in.

June 22, 2006 - When asked to comment on why he and other House Republicans from the South were holding up renewal of the Voting Rights Act, here's how one representative from Texas responded:

June 22, 2006 - It's been said that the President and Congress can dicker all they want about the economy, but it's the Federal Reserve Board that really calls the shots.

June 15, 2006 - This week, some 12,000 members of the Southern Baptist Convention -- the ground troops of conservative fundamentalism in America -- gathered in Greensboro, N.C. to pick a new leader, debate theology, and set their direction for the coming years.