Sarah Kate Kramer

Obama displayed high hopes in his State of the Union Address for the Senate to consider a climate change bill and invest in clean energy, but bipartisan efforts failed and a bill didn't gain traction, despite the worst environmental disaster in history—the BP oil spill. Meanwhile, the planet experienced a slew of natural disasters and the highest temperatures on record, setting off deadly wildfires in Russia and floods in Pakistan.

On Sunday, the Huskies matched the record set by UCLA in the early 1970's for the longest win streak in NCAA basketball history. They play for the chance to possess that record outright on Tuesday.

At the start of the year, advocates for immigration reform were full of hope. Powerful members of Congress had promised they'd bring a comprehensive immigration reform bill to the floor, and Obama signaled his commitment to back it. But then, along came Arizona.

The health care debate dominated news headlines constantly through the first three months of the year, until President Obama finally signed the overhaul legislation on March 23. As some aspects of the law began rolling out over the next nine months, others were brought to court over questions of constitutionality.

Wondering how the new tax laws will affect you? Need to get your personal finances in order? CPA and host of "Greenberg News" on WNJC 1360 AM in Philadelphia, Brian Greenberg is taking tax questions. 

According to Greenberg, most people won't see much of a change in their tax bills on April 15, 2011—the "new" law is really a continuation of what's been going on for the past two years. 

Really, the government can't win on either side, because they say the government was too interventionist, and then it was not interventionist enough in the case of Lehman. -Heidi M...

Hand to hand, the torch was passed all the way from Mexico City to New York, finally ending its 72-day journey on Sunday at Saint Patrick's Cathedral amid hundreds of cheering families, folk dancers, and musicians.

Intermediaries are absolutely necessary to ensure that free speech online is robust and strong, and when they're afraid to stand up for their users' right to free speech and help ...

Less than 24 hours after the House passed the DREAM Act on Wednesday by a margin of 216-198, the Senate voted to table its version of the bill until next week, after a vote on extendi...

"Every journalist has to decide, how do I in publicizing these remarks, contextualize them in such a way that I'm creating knowledge and not just publicity." Tom Rosenstiel, speaking...

As embarrassing as some of these more candid comments may be, it is now pretty clear the extent to which we have been working diplomatically, and have been engaging friends and allies...

Why did the Rick Lazio campaign fall flat on its face? What accounted for Carl Paladino's grassroots appeal? Who took whom seriously? What gave Eric Schneiderman the winning edge? Was Andrew Cuomo really a control freak?

All these questions were answered, analyzed and fought over by the political consultants and insiders that made the 2010 election campaigns tick. Here are the best quotes from a political roundtable hosted by The New School's Center for New York City Affairs.

A day after Cathie Black received a waiver from the state education commissioner so she could take the top job in the New York City public school system, a small group of Green Part...

A 3.9 magnitude earthquake shook the New York City region earlier today.

About 50 immigration advocates rallied in Times Square on Monday afternoon to urge the New York Congressional delegation to support the federal Dream Act. The bill would allow young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. before the age of 16 and have lived here for five years to legalize their status by going to college or joining the military for two years.

There are a number of members who are just dubious about the science, and that's one of the hurdles to passing cap and trade legislation. —Darren Samuelsohn, senior energy and enviro...

"I don't send smoke signals. They know who I am. They know how I feel about issues... I think we have too little of that in politics." - Chris Christie, New Jersey Governor, on Meet...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is a hard act to follow. He was elected on a platform of ridding his state of an almost $11 billion deficit, and promised to do it without raising a...

The goals the U.S. has around the world, whether they're in climate, or dealing with the global economy, or dealing with Iran and its nuclear pretensions, require a cooperative arra...

There's this idea that simply cutting government waste here and there you can make a big dent in the deficit, and you can't. That's simply never going to be workable. - Felix Salmon,...