What will Congress do about the Bush-era tax cuts when it returns for a lame duck session in a couple of weeks? It is increasingly...

Yesterday was election day, and while tax and spending themes played a role in congressional and gubernatorial contests, voters in many states also got to...

Angry voters have spoken, and have fired pretty much every congressional Democrat they could. Republicans gained control of the House and substantially narrowed the Democratic...

Congress and the administration have been arguing for months over extension of the Bush tax cuts : Should we extend them for everyone or only...

Who needs death panels? Representative Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) claims that ranchers and farmers in her state are planning on ending dialysis or other life-extending medical...

A terrific story the other day by Jesse Drucker at Bloomberg got me thinking: Would it really matter very much if the U.S. cut its...

The two big stories of this campaign season are voter backlash against Democrats and the rise of the so-called Super PACs-- massive campaign funding organizations...

Michael Cooper over at The New York Times stopped off at the Pig Pickin and Politickin rally in North Carolina the other day to ask...

Three-quarters of Americans believe that entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security “will create major economic problems” over the next 25 years. But two-thirds...

The fine folks over at the New York Times Freakonomics blog recently asked me to identify the “biggest potential tax policy mistake that might be...