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'Current policy' debate dogs budget reconciliation efforts - Roll Call
The Senate's budget blueprint has triggered a fight over wiping away the cost of tax-cut extensions in a bid to make them permanent.
Why bureaucracy is hated — but necessary
Despite attacks on bureaucracies, experts agree such organizations are more important than ever
When are the Iowa caucuses and why are they so important?
Prominent Iowa pollster tells Gustaf Kilander, ‘it should be impossible to poll caucuses accurately because they’re designed for things to change at the very last moment’
Was acid rain truly a success story?
The U.S. once forged a bipartisan consensus to fight acid rain. Can we do likewise for other ecosystem breakdowns?
Republicans weren't always anti-climate
There was once a bipartisan consensus that environmental reform is important, but corporate interests took priority
At least 80 calls to National Archives since 2010 about mishandling classified information
The National Archives has been called more than 80 times in the past decade-plus about classified materials found in the papers of former members of Congress and other U.S. officials
Carl P. Leubsdorf: New Hampshire unlikely to go quietly
In voting to exclude Iowa’s early caucuses and sandwich New Hampshire’s primary between those of South Carolina and Nevada, a key Democratic panel finally recognized the need for early tests that represent the party’s diversity.
The US supreme court has declared war on the Earth’s future
In a major environmental case, the court has made clear that it would rather represent the interests of corporations and the super-rich than the needs and desires of the vast majority of Americans – or people on Earth
Trump’s bid to cling to power ‘beyond Nixon’s imagination’, Watergate duo say
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein write in new book foreword that bid to overturn election made Trump ‘our first seditious president’