In the past two election years, voters in 17 states supported minimum wage increases.

How can something offering so much demonstrated good to so many people be castigated as if it were a worse bane on society than the Bubonic Plague?

Republicans in control of the Senate will try to force a politically weakened President Barack Obama to accept changes to his health care law, back off on tough environmental rules and nominate judges they endorse.

Both parties in Congress agree the tax code is a mess and needs to be revamped. That doesnt mean it will happen.