On Tuesday, Super PACs filed reports with the Federal Elections Commission detailing their fundraising and spending activities from October through December 2011.

In the coming weeks, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act (H.R. 7), a bill that seeks to raise revenues to pay for infrastructure projects by expanding domestic oil and gas drilling.

We read in Kohelet, or Ecclesiastes, that “One generation goes and another generation comes, but the Earth remains forever” (1:4). We are people of faith who believe that all of God’s creation deserves to be protected and treated with respect, and we also know

Saturday marked two years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued the Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission decision, which overturned decades of precedent to allow corporations and labor unions to spend unlimited sums on independent political

As the economic recovery has continued to lag, many of the most vulnerable members in American society have come under increased threat. 

A year ago this week President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia resigned in the face of public protests, a month after the self-immolation that inspired unprecedented protests across the Middle East.

UPDATE: News outlets are reporting that the State Department will reject the Keystone XL pipeline permit this afternoon.  The announcement is expected to be formally issued by Deputy Secretary of State William Burns.

Since September 2010, there has been a first-ever focus on the crises that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth face in America’s schools. 

Last Thursday, Stephen Colbert shook up the 2012 Presidential primary season by announcing that he was forming an exploratory committee to consider entering the Republican race for “President of the United States of South Carolina.” But there was one hitch: