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Stop me if you've heard this one before. A "fresh face" in Massachusetts politics decides to run for U.S. Senate.

The lottery was set up as a way to give anyone a chance at the "American dream." But the new plan will focus instead on adding more highly-educated workers in science, technology, engineering and math.

Spring in Washington has been chilly for everyone, but for no one more than President Obama - and there are few hints that more clement political weather will arrive soon at the White House.

Behind in the polls in a solidly Democratic state, heavily underfunded against a formidable opponent, and suffering from a barrage of attacks over a questionable tax break he once received, Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez nonetheless brims with a preternatural confidence -- the kind found only in a candidate whose political career is just ... (more)

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By Joel C. Cantor [Joel C. Cantor is the director of the Center for State Health Policy and professor of public policy at Rutgers University.

Blunt yet sympathetic. Good with a calculator under pressure. Loves doing pro-bono work as a hobby.

So it is natural to wonder if the effort in 2013 won't collapse as well. But much has changed in six years, and those changes work to the benefit of immigration reform.

There was considerable outrage back in 1974 when the IRS acted at President Richard Nixon's behest to begin audits and investigations of several alleged "enemies" such as Sen.

After Ted Kennedy was elected for the first time, at age 30, his home state sent him back to the Senate eight times, all but once by unassailable margins.

Five months before Barack Obama was elected to his first term as president, Herbert Romerstein and I finished a Washington, D.C. briefing on " "-Barack Obama-and his communist connections.

For argument's sake, let's say that Mayor Jim Suttle's reasoning was right, that taking action to get back $1 million in overpayments to 258 police officers would have cost the city more than it would have recovered.

The clock hits 6:34 a.m. at the Jansen home in northwest Omaha, and five 14-year-olds hustle out the door with backpacks to catch their bus.

Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley said Friday that he won't attend Boston College's graduation because the Jesuit school's commencement speaker, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, supports legislation to permit abortion.

Then: A president commanding an increasingly unpopular war and having lost the House was losing altitude, especially with his own party.

Two polls released this week - one by Public Policy Polling and another by WBUR-TV - show Republican Gabriel Gomez within striking distance of Democrat Ed Markey in next month's special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by John Kerry's appointment as Secretary of State.

Legislation to close the regulatory gaps that led to last year's deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis in Tennessee and 19 other states appears "pretty close" to being ready, key senators said Thursday.

The dramatic Benghazi Whistleblower Hearings of May 8, 2013, for those paying attention , confirmed many things that Conservatives have known for quite some time, not the least of which is that Hillary Clinton is, indeed, a liar, a fraud, and an unethical, traitorous woman who deserves to pay for her crimes.

Questioning the security of the border, a go-to tactic for the forces seeking to derail immigration reform, has lost some of its punch.

Every human life is special, unique, unrepeatable - to borrow from Pope John Paul II.