WASHINGTON — In 2013, when President Mitch Daniels, former Indiana governor, is counting his blessings, at the top of his list will be the name of his vice president: Pa...
The growing debt — and our failure to make hard choices to reduce it — is undermining confidence in America abroad, eroding our economic might, and could lead to a histo...
WASHINGTON — The economic collapse of 2008 and 2009 did so much damage to the United States that only now can we begin to measure the devastation.
A sentence buried in t...
Last week showed just how hard it will be to dig the country out of its multitrillion-dollar fiscal hole.
The Senate rejected, 53-46, the creation of a "fiscal future" c...
In the last two weeks, President Obama finally proposed tough new restrictions on the big banks, and then he underlined them in his State of the Union speech. It's a sta...
Congress long ago discovered a great way to control Medicare spending — at least on paper.
It sets spending targets. If they're not met, fees paid to doctors, hospitals ...
WASHINGTON — The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane — that can happen to any administrati...
Although chastened by political and legislative defeats recently, President Obama came out swinging in his address to Congress, exhorting Demo-crats to stay the course o...
Around this time last year, U.N. leaders decided that the best way to cut rampant corruption in its ranks was to aggressively . . . stop looking for it.
They yanked fund...
Media coverage and commentary have vastly overstated the likely impact on federal election campaigns of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which ruled that co...
