President Obama’s new budget attempts to define a progressive alternative to conservative demands for a politics of austerity. Having just returned from a gathering of…
Writing for U.S. News & World Report, Jason Gold explains the impact of the fiscal cliff on homeowners. With the clock ticking, the nation is engrossed in…
As the presidential candidates debate the fate of Medicare, it’s worth noting a very simple fact: Mitt Romney paid only 0.07% of his income in…
Sometimes things are not what we think they are. The conventional notion is that government has become more important under President Obama, while the private…
The official failure of the congressional “supercommittee” came and went without much hand-wringing in Wingnut World; indeed, the prevailing sentiment was quiet satisfaction that Republicans…
The end of the calendar year always means an assortment of “temporary” policies are approaching expiration, including some (e.g., upward revision of reimbursement rates for…
It was a relatively quiet week in Wingnut World, with the loudest mouths probably conserving energy for cries of “betrayal” in the unlikely case that…
As the November 23 deadline for congressional action on a “supercommittee” package to reduce budget deficits by $1.2 trillion and avoid automatic domestic and defense…
Is the supercommittee President Obama’s revenge? After last summer’s showdown over raising the debt ceiling, Obama was roundly criticized for agreeing to a deficit-reduction deal…
In the wake of Hurricane Irene, there has been consternation over whether the GOP proposed cuts to the United States Geological Survey signifies that they…