The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew past their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles. The pilots – Timothy Cheney of Gig Harbor, Wash., the captain, and Richard Cole of...

The public option lives. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Monday that the bill he will bring to the Senate floor will include a public health insurance option that individual states could decline to participate in. &quo...

Chicago's failed bid to host the 2016 Olympics in the first round of voting caps a week of conservative attacks against President Obama for personally stumping on his home city's behalf. How the International Olympic Committee's reje...

The Internet celebrated its 40th birthday this week, and Jimmy Kimmel got all all sentimental as a result. He decided to celebrate with a salute to all the World Wide Web has given to us over the years--it's either a loving tribute to our quirkin...

The Daily Beast's Rebecca Dana reports that Charlie Gibson is "livid" over the choice of Diane Sawyer as his replacement on ABC's "World News." Dana quotes a source close to Gibson and supports the claim with the evidence that Gibson neither mentioned...

It's nice to see that even after the election, conservatives are still playing the "liberal gotchya media" card every time they expose themselves as being shamefully ignorant regarding the issues they care about most. Last Wednesday, a media firestorm...

School arts programs are again under assault, having, in many cases, never recovered from past cutbacks. At the same time, Goldman Sachs has image problems its chief, Lloyd Blankfein, did not anticipate, cannot identify with and continues to...

The reality is that since our Great Recession is only a year old, it may be silly to interpret every upward blip as a sign that it's almost finished. The Great Depression lasted ten years, and probably ended only as a result of the economic...

It was 1988, with the first Intifada in full bloom and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the lead up to their November 29th declaration of independence, when I met with a few members of the PLO Executive Committee to discuss their plans. "Is...

ROME — Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son who allegedly spent just over $200 to set up a reliable and untraceable phone network that was used by the militants who carried out last year's terror attacks in Mumbai, India. The...