NASA may only consume 0.5 percent of the federal budget, but it generates practically all of Uncle Sam's viral marketing buzz.
Stephen Colbert's faux presidential run has created an unlikely celebrity out of Trevor Potter—the meticulous yet amiable election lawyer guiding Colbert audiences through the thorny world of campaign super PACs.
President Barack Obama wants to trim down the size of the federal government, and he asked Congress on Friday to give him the power to do it quickly.
It's not something the federal government likes to admit but every December, the faceless men and women of the U.S. government are allotted a holiday party to toast the year's successes.
It all seemed a like shameless ratings stunt, but the campaign by telegenic daytime TV host Dr. Oz to about arsenic levels in apple juice has been echoed by a new Consumer Reports investigation that contradicts the Food and Drug Administration.
The Super Committee's official deadline for a deficit deal is technically on Wednesday, but because of the necessary behind-the-scenes work at the Congressional Budget Office, the real deadline is Monday at midnight.
A tale of double agents and strategic humor pieces--the tricks aren't so much dirty as strange
A little bit about the new special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Why moms and enviros are happy, and the Perchlorate Information Bureau, i.e. Aerojet, is outraged
Commentators offer solutions following the agency's decision to shutter 2,000 post offices
But the policies won't be changed
"The number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more a year has soared tenfold," USA Today reports.
Environmentalists, for their part, aren't pleased
It lost $3.8 billion last year, and its rate hike proposal was just denied
A new commission will recommend difficult reforms
Displaying the agency's seal is apparently a big deal
Two opposing takes
Talking Points Memo reports a "growing consensus" on raising the retirement age
What is it with bureaucrats and porn?
One thing you can say for Janet Napolitano: she was never convicted of wire fraud
Is that such a bad thing?
These bureaucrats are NSFW
Mail-free Saturdays? That's just the beginning
Ben Bernanke calls the allegations "absolutely bizarre"
What it means for poverty, politics and the economy
Congressional Democrats and Republicans could come together to make the Fed Chairman their human sacrifice
Commentators dig into Time's 'boring, elitist' choice: Fed chairman Ben Bernanke
A government report confirms what liberals had long feared: Civil rights enforcement fell sharply during the Bush years
Why the country needs a new Fed chairman
Senator Bernie Sanders's bid to kill Bernanke's confirmation sparks a heated debate
Heads roll after a spectacular security breach at the White House. Here's why the federal agency is in trouble.
Will the move bring needed transparency or financial instability?
Representatives call for Geithner to resign. Will the Treasury secretary manage to hang on?
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