WASHINGTON — What does "energy policy" mean to you?

Does it conjure up questions of national security and terrorism? Or is it more about promoting cheap, renewable fuels? Maybe your take is about climate change and reducing greenhouse …

Barack Obama has 43 predecessors he can look to for lessons on everything from devising a cabinet, to raising children in the White House. When it comes to developing a Web strategy, though, the president-elect is on his own. …

This isn’t your grandfather’s fireside chat.

President-elect Barack Obama plans to tape a weekly address not just for radio listeners, as presidents have for years, but for YouTube Internet viewers, too.

Well, what else would you …

UT government professor Daron Shaw has spent the past few months analyzing the 2008 general election for Fox News, a fact he shies away from addressing. Shaw has worked with presidential campaigns and elections since his days as a strategist …

Despite a career as a consulting professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, John Koza came to campus this week to propose a replacement for what he says is a faulty Electoral College system.

The current Electoral College system functions …

HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) — A county treasurer who lost her bid for a fourth term last week to a 20-year-old Dartmouth College student from Montana blames her failed candidacy on "brainwashed college kids."

Republican Carol Elliott said students …

Unregulated tuition increases will be curbed if a bill filed Monday by two state legislators passes during the 2009 Texas Legislative Session.

State Sens. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, a McAllen Democrat, and Tommy Williams, a Woodlands Republican, presented provisions …

One of the most controversial aspects of lobbying in higher education is the use of earmarks, or funds directed by members of Congress toward specific projects.

While earmarks have gained a reputation for corruption through projects like Alaska’s …

It’s been more than a week since Election Day, but the race for Congress between Steve Stivers and Mary Jo Kilroy is far from over.

"Right now we’re in a bit of a holding pattern," said Rob Nichols, …

A University of Wisconsin alumnus and veteran spoke on the history of Veterans Day and the nation’s disinterest in the holiday as part of the College Republicans’ observance Tuesday.

Sgt. Kevan Brackee, who has served in the military …