Month: December 2013

http://nyti.ms/1fU2YNj In 2012 President Obama, ever hopeful that reason would prevail, predicted that his re-election would finally break the G.O.P.’s “fever.” It didn’t.  But the

http://m.cjr.org/164390/show/99b23b973f5120eccfd6604969ffc575/? Posted on Thursday Dec 19th at 11:00am By Brendan Nyhan How should the United States choose among the difficult tradeoffs it faces in setting

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/benghazi/ Months of investigation by The New York Times, centered on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there

by Elizabeth Shogren NPR – December 28, 2013 The Endangered Species Act, which turns 40 on Saturday, helped bring back iconic species such as the

http://nyti.ms/19p4H8X Signs of the energy business are inescapable in and around Houston — the pipelines, refineries and tankers that crowd the harbor, and the gleaming

http://nyti.ms/1eGXHvM With the next budget deadline just weeks away, top lawmakers said this week that they had made significant progress negotiating a huge government-wide spending

http://nyti.ms/19k1Q1d WASHINGTON — With the first enrollment deadline now passed, Republicans who have made the repeal of President Obama’s health care law their central aim

http://nyti.ms/J8G5u4 On Sundays, this time of year, my parents would pack a gaggle of us kids into the station wagon for a tour of two

http://nyti.ms/1fDgAwE KABUL, Afghanistan — With one of the most important chapters of Afghanistan’s history open before him, President Hamid Karzai took time this month for

http://nyti.ms/1bZAq6m SAN FRANCISCO — The tech sector is, increasingly, embracing the language of urban planning — town hall, public square, civic hackathons, community engagement. So