On the front page of this morning’s Metro section there was a story about Wal-Mart’s plan to open six stores in the District of Columbia. But in the box listing the locations there was an impossible address, “801 New Jersey Ave. NE”. 

The author examines climate data, income, and economic indicators to determine if foreign aid produces desired results.

On Feb. 15, Leslie Moonves, the brilliant CEO of CBS, gave a piece of good news to investors — there would be an addition to the bottom line in 2012 of about $190 million, thanks to huge spending on political commercials coming into the network and its owned and operated...

What’s important now is not to let what happened to Fishtown be ignored. For whatever reasons, the culture that used to characterize working-class America — indeed, that made working-class America the spine of America’s civic culture — has come apart. Recognizing that this has happened is the indispensable first step in figuring out what to do next.

Why is Romney ramping up in Iowa? If a quarter of his support in New Hampshire can melt away as Newt Gingrich surges (which did not happen during the Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain surges), then his firewall in the first primary state is not nearly as solid as everyone has been thinking. 

The enormous costs and burdens of outmoded facilities arrangements represent an immense opportunity for the nation's school systems.

Three weeks out from the New Hampshire primary and voters in the Granite State don't seem to have settled firmly on one of the Republican presidential candidates.

So now it's Ron Paul's turn. The diminutive Texas libertarian is poised in the latest polls to win the Iowa caucuses. Obviously, this would be rough news for Newt Gingrich — who's in third place and falling — and very good news for Mitt Romney.