Anxiety

Today marks one year since Cars.com bought its long-term 2011 Nissan Leaf. We've racked up just over 7,000 miles, which is below average for a normal car but appropriate for a battery-electric model with a limited range intended for commuting......

To put Cars.com's 2011 Nissan Leaf through a series of long-distance, boundary-pushing trips, I commuted in it for a week, about 43 miles each way. The Leaf charges fully during the day using a Level 2 public charging station. At......

For all the talk of range anxiety with battery-electric cars, we've gotten nervous in our Nissan Leaf only a couple of times since Cars.com purchased it in February, and thanks to minor adjustments in speed or heater setting, we averted......

Thanks to the loan of a 2010 Tesla Roadster and a welcome coincidence, Cars.com took its first crack at charging an electric car using a public charging station ??? with mixed results. If range anxiety is the No. 1 concern......

by Greg Miller The Obama administration disclosed new cases of alleged abuse in the CIA's interrogation program today,issuing a report that described how prisoners were choked to the point of passing out and threatened with harm to their immediate...

by Mark Silva House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel would rather talk about trade and health-care than the ethical breaches of which he is accused. "Mr. Rangel's pattern of conduct is what's so troubling here,'' Melanie Sloan, director of......

Guest poster John Lindner expresses my potluck anxiety much better than I could. I want people to be impressed by what I bring, I just don't feel like spending time cooking for the peons my neighbors, who would just as......

by Mark Silva and updated with transcript The political costs of pressing for health-care reform and other controversial initiatives won't stop President Barack Obama from trying, he says in an interviewi airing this evening on ABC's World News. " I'd.......

by Mark Silva, updated with details and speech President Barack Obama, vowing a new commitment to fiscal restraint while renewing his bid for an overhaul of healthcare, called on Americans Wednesday night to repair "a deficit of trust.'' The president,......

by Mark Silva Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff and former congressman from Chicago, has made it clear to friends that he'd like to run for mayor of Chicago. But tonight, he made it really clear, publicly, that......

Sian Beilock is the author of "Choke: What the Secrets Of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To." She recently co-authored a report that suggests that when a person is anxious about math, his or her brain responds in the same way it...

As someone who does not have kids, I can attest to the fact that parents of small children love being told what they are doing wrong by the childless. Whenever I offer advice, parents smile so broadly! And listen so closely! Occasionally, blinded by...