Washington Bureau

The Chevy Volt, the electric car of the future being developed by General Motors, is too expensive to survive in the marketplace. GM is still relying too much on high-margin...

Invoking a lesson of Vietnam, President Barack Obama said Sunday that stepped-up military operations in Afghanistan against Al Qaeda and its Taliban allies do not represent "an open-ended commitment of...

President Barack Obama's plan to create a single, unified U.S. strategy for both Afghanistan and Pakistan marks his effort to sever his administration's approach from the failures of the past....

At the heart of President Barack Obama's approach to foreign policy has been a promise to end the "unilateral" strategies of his predecessor and to heal bruised relations with America's...

After years as a top state and federal health-care official, Nancy-Ann DeParle turned her attention to the business of medicine, overseeing more than a dozen companies as a board member...

In what could be an encouraging sign of change in America's long-standing shortage of graduates prepared for high-tech careers, the hottest subject on college campuses across the nation right now...

Faced with mounting budget deficits and the enormous cost of reforming the nation's health-care system, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill are expressing increasing openness to an idea that once...

President Barack Obama sought Friday to rally support from a skeptical public for his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan but left many of the important questions of timing...

Afghanistan's former Taliban leader is pursuing a strategy to reclaim power, the top U.S. intelligence official said Thursday, identifying a key administration concern as the White House prepared to unveil...

With their prospects in Congress sinking along with the economy, liberal advocates of giving undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship are launching a risky strategy to push lawmakers and the...