…ticket revenue of $2.7 billion, and 6.9 billion passenger-miles travelled in 2025, both all-time highs. An Amtrak press release noted that these records resulted from “improvements in the customer experience”…

In a Nut Shell? The title tells it all as to what is occurring when looking at the Household Employment release. Civilian Labor force for May increased by 83,000 over…

Doggett fighting for fairness on Tax Day! On Monday, Congressman Lloyd Doggett, a long-time member of the House Ways and Means Committee, releases a GAO report showing the continued advance…

by Linda Beale Obama caves yet again: offering Social Security cuts to appease the right… Obama’s budget isn’t even released yet and he’s already caving to the “let’s make the…

If you’re a fish merrily swimming in a stream, is it your fault if a flood — say from a large release from the dam upstream — causes you to…

…agenda. In retrospect, this whole affair was foreshadowed by the release of Woodward’s latest book last fall. It made much less of a splash than many other Woodward books. Most…

…post about this at Arctic News, that area where the methane concentrations are highest coincides with the area of the arctic ocean that is still relatively ice-free. This dramatic increase…

…some new, reasonable limits on the charitable contribution deduction make a lot of sense from the perspective of democratic egalitarianism. My suggestion would be to limit the deduction to 10%…

…Brennan. Washington Post’s Greg Sargent outlines the questions Congress should grill Brennan on related to his support for targeted killings. Obama to release legal rationale for drone strikes. In advance…

…carbon dioxide than coal, but fracturing it from underground rock formations may release so much methane (a very potent greenhouse gas) that it is a wash with coal. Both coal…