President Obama revived one of his favorite revenue-raising proposals in his recent jobs plan: limiting the itemized tax deductions that “millionaires and billionaires” ...
The federal government ended the fiscal year Friday with Congress every bit as divided and as close to paralysis as it was when bickering over deficits nearly shut down ...
WASHINGTON — Unless you are a National Public Radio loyalist, you might have missed a political drama unfolding far beneath the radar of human consciousness having to do...
Members of Congress railing against the Obama administration’s decision to grant waivers from the sweeping No Child Left Behind education law have little ground to stand...
WASHINGTON — Economist Robert Litan of the Kauffman Foundation likes to recall that half of today’s Fortune 500 companies began as start-ups in a recession or a bear sto...
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama’s jobs bill is better than doing nothing in the face of a national crisis, but it won’t have much impact on unemployment. Many of the m...
This Saturday, the size of a “jumbo” mortgage — the maximum amount that government-affiliated entities will back with tax money — will shrink from $729,750 to $625,500.
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Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a mild-mannered man who believes in building ties of trust with our military allies.
He’s invested many hours...
Getting consensus on immigration issues is hard. But few would dispute that the existing system is broken. Its failure can be seen most clearly on farms: An estimated 70...
Less than two months after a corrosive battle over the debt ceiling, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are squaring off again in a budget dispute that could force th...
