National Political Updates

Many Americans are likely to have to work until they are dead, not as a result of Social Security shortfalls but because of their inadequate 401(k) savings or the fact that they have no retirement plan at all. Jane White http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-white/

WASHINGTON — Vowing to find new ways to stimulate the sputtering economy, President Barack Obama will call for long-term investments in the nation's roads, railways... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/reporting/tj-ortenzi/

This Labor Day, we must consider how a new generation of unions can become relevant in a transformed economy. Every Labor Day, we hear about... Amy B. Dean http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-b-dean/

How the government's policy to modernize trucks collides with its policies to promote high-wage jobs

The road to unionized Wal-Mart runs through obscure towns where workers are abused in hidden warehouses.

The Oregon progressive thinks it's time to cut the budget. Wait, what?

The explosion of low-wage jobs is due, for the most part, to the declining bargaining power of America's employees.

There is a lot the administration can do without legislation.

The Obama administration's policy of disengagement has succeeded as spectacularly as the Bush administration's policy of invasion failed.

No Child Left Behind has given us a lot of hard numbers -- but we still don't know what they're telling us about educational outcomes.

Last night's speech may have felt like an inconclusive end to the war, but it marks a shift in Obama's focus to economic policy.

It's tempting to demonize conservatives with hyperbolic comparisons, but liberals have an obligation to the truth.

Middle East peace talks resume in Washington on Thursday, but conditions on the ground belie optimism.

Anti-intellectualism rears its head.

TAP talks with Shahid Buttar, a civil-rights lawyer and executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, about recent constitutional flare-ups.

The temporary federal high-risk pools won't reach most of the medically uninsured.

Integration has always been the American body politic's best antibody against the virus of radical political ideology.

Is nothing certain but the death of bank taxes?

As Sarah Palin becomes ubiquitous in the Lower 48, Republicans in Alaska are trying hard to forget her.

Our current political leadership just isn't all that funny.