Politics & Policy

This week, the Supreme Court will issue its decision in a high-profile case challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Also called ...

One of the nation’s leading political analysts has changed his rating of next year’s Pennsylvania governor’s race  ...

The 12th Amendment, which combines a party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates onto one ticket, turned 209 this weeken ...

Since its earliest days, the United States of America has been a great experiment testing whether a free people are capable of governing ...

Young immigrants in New Jersey are pushing the state Legislature to take up a version of the federal Dream Act by the end of the month. ...

The Supreme Court issued two decisions today that will effect voter identification at elections and the prices of generic drugs. ...

“You have zero privacy. Get over it.” That’s not me talking. That was Scott McNealy, chief executive of Sun Micr ...

In Washington, senators are debating an overhaul of the American immigration system. In Philadelphia, supporters of comprehensive ...

Paul Krugman is a Nobel-prize winning economist and a prolific writer, both on economic theory and as a public intellectual. Through his ...

Edward Snowden, a 29-year old high school dropout and employee of a contractor working for the National Security Agency, has claimed cred ...

  The most underreported news story of the current year and of President Obama’s second term is the continuing jobs cri ...

President Barack Obama Friday sought to defend broad surveillance of Americans’ phone records and Internet usage by the National Se ...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is much in the news this week — first with his decision to call a special election to fill the late Sen. ...