Welcome to the deficit blame game! The game where the only numbers that really matter are the polls. Name of the game, use rhetoric to score points. Tout your own … READ MORE
Senate
Bipartisan Group of Senators Make Pitch to Permanently Ban Earmarks
Before the 116th Congress is sworn into office next year, a bipartisan group of Senators wants to make the current moratorium on congressional earmarks permanent. Ten U.S. Senators sent a … READ MORE
The Danger Debt Poses to Children’s Programs
This August, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) released a paper exploring how the federal budget process disadvantages children's programs. The CRFB found some major ways in which … READ MORE
The Surrender of Congress
The events of the past few weeks in the nation’s capital can only be described—even by the standards of Washington—as pure performance art. Between grandstanding and “Spartacus” moments during the … READ MORE
Juiced Legacies: McGwire vs Sosa, GOP vs DNC
During the summer of 1998, the American people were transfixed by the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. The feats of strength, the friendly rivalry, and the … READ MORE
The Equation That Stumps Congress
For more than a decade, Congressmen – especially of the Republican variety – have been lamenting our continual budget deficits and growing national debt. Despite the bellyaching, in the past … READ MORE
Why Supreme Court Nominations Have Become So Political
There has been a lot of political pander after Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearing. Pundits from the right are praising his performance, while pundits from the left are predicting apocalypse … READ MORE
An Unlikely Pair is Teaming Up to Curb Sisyphean-Like Student Loan Laws
In a famous tale from Greek mythology, a man named Sisyphus is punished by Hades, god of the underworld, by having to push a large boulder up a hill. The … READ MORE