Republican politicians have restarted their push to stop Syrian refugees from entering the United States after the FBI announced on Thursday that it had arrested two Iraqi ref...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/congress-trying-stop-syrian-refugees-yet-again
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House isn't waiting for confirmation of North Korea's hydrogen-bomb test claim before voting on legislation that expands sanctions on Pyongyang and spe...
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-nkorea-sanctions-bill-seeks-to-deny-countrys-access-to-cash-2016-1
A year after pledging $300 million [http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/6/7505929/intel-investing-300-million-to-fix-diversity-ces-2015] toward diversity initiatives, Intel is laun...
What You Need to Know About H.R.759 – Recidivism Risk Reduction Act If you work in the criminal justice field or your organization focuses on social justice issues, you shou...
http://www.socialsolutions.com/blog/recidivism-risk-reduction-act/
The National Governors Association is calling on federal lawmakers to let them start collecting taxes on Internet bills and online transactions. The post Governors challenge...
http://statescoop.com/governors-challenge-congress-end-internet-tax-ban/
What if the very worst result of George W. Bush's war lies is that people stop taking seriously the danger of actual nuclear weapons actually falling into the hands of actual ...
http://warisacrime.org/content/cities-world-unite-against-nations-wars
Even though this is the first time the full congress has actually passed an ObamaCare repeal and sent it to the president for his signature (which, of course, it will not get)...
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Budget, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce denounced House Republica...
FOREWARD Portions of the following essay were first posted to Stonekettle Station on January 1, 2013. Almost exactly three years ago. Little has changed in that time. The...
http://www.stonekettle.com/2016/01/bang-bang-crazy-part-five-update.html
We learned on Tuesday that Barack Obama, in his final year of office, will continue to test the boundaries of executive authority in order to break through congressional inert...
https://newrepublic.com/article/127066/obama-hit-limit-gun-control
IMPLEMENTING HEALTH REFORM (JANUARY 6 UPDATE). On January 6, 2015, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report [http://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region2/2140202...
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2016/01/05/cbo-updates-the-estimated-of-the-budget-reconciliation-act/
In this interview, Mako Hill, one of the editors of the writings of the late Aaron Swartz, discusses what he learned from Swartz as a colleague and friend, and how Swartz beca...