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Reason
February 2007 |
Divided We Stand What sort of legislation and political theater should the friends of "Free Minds and Free Markets" expect during the next two years? Is the new situation an improvement or disaster?   |
Reason
February 2003
Brian Doherty |
All the Presidents' Employees Republicans label their adversary the party of big government, while Democrats count the GOP as a tool of the military-industrial complex. Does the rhetoric reflect reality? When considering statistics about civilian employment by the federal government, the answer is clearly no. |
Reason
June 2003
Jesse Walker |
Trading Places In matters economic, Democrats are supposed to be the party of big government, Republicans the faction of fiscal and regulatory restraint. But when it comes to the executive branch, the sides seem to have reversed. |
Salon.com
September 6, 2001
Jake Tapper |
What vanishing surplus? The Republicans try to ignore budget woes, while the Democrats plot to pin the tail on the elephant... |
Salon.com
September 4, 2001
Anthony York |
Bring on the budget deficit Robert Reich denounces Democrats' debt-reduction fetish, and compares Al Gore to Calvin Coolidge... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2007
John Keller |
Taking the Pulse of Defense Spending As the war in Iraq has become a political sore spot, we can expect the Pentagon's leaders to hunker down to the status quo on military spending at least through the presidential election in November |
Salon.com
September 1, 2001
Anthony York |
Breaking into the lockbox Thanks to his massive tax cut, President Bush is under pressure to raid the Social Security surplus to fund his budget -- and some liberal Democrats agree. |
Salon.com
September 5, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Budget battle looms Bush continues to stand behind some loopy surplus figures. But can the Democrats mount an effective counterattack? |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005
Howard Gleckman |
The Fog Of The Budget How Bush will mask the biggest national debt in history. |
Reason
May 2008
Veronique de Rugy |
The Trillion-Dollar War The War on Terror is now more expensive than Vietnam or World War I -- but the dishonest way Washington is paying for it may prove costliest of all. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2007
John Keller |
Pentagon Budget Faces Tough Battle on Capitol Hill President George W. Bush for 2008 has submitted to Congress one of the largest-ever budget requests for the U.S. DOD, but the Pentagon's proposed budget faces perhaps its toughest battle in Congress in the last 15 years. |
Salon.com
February 15, 2001
Joan Walsh |
Plutocrats to the rescue! While the spineless Dems dither, the stiffest resistance to Bush's outrageous tax plan comes from an unlikely quarter: Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Sr.... |
Managed Care
November 2000 |
Rights Bill Inaction Spurs Clinton To Act Without Congress Health care issues generated political brinkmanship as the 106th Congress skidded toward Election Day -- capped by President Clinton's declaration of a limited series of patient rights regulations following Congress's failure to pass a patient rights bill... |
Reason
November 2008
Mangu-Ward et al. |
Is There Any Hope For This Man? Assessments of Barack Obama from several libertarians. |
Salon.com
March 9, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Where's the other team? As Bush's tax cut sails through the House, Democrats grumble about their lackluster leadership... |
BusinessWeek
February 16, 2004
Howard Gleckman |
The Budget: Hey Guys, Get Real President Bush says he wants to cut the deficit in half by 2009. Here's why that's not likely to happen. |
Reason
July 2007
David Weigel |
Hawks and Hogs Why no one dares attack the waste in U.S. defense spending. |
Reason
January 2009
Matt Welch |
Obama's Numbers The president-elect has promised to make his math add up. Therein lies a glimmer of possibility. |
Salon.com
December 16, 2000
Anthony York |
Will Republicans be Bush's worst enemies? From John McCain to Tom DeLay, members of his own party could make the most trouble for the president-elect... |
Salon.com
August 28, 2001
Robert Scheer |
Bush's budget goes for broke The new budget numbers make it clear that the president's tax cut was aimed at bankrupting the treasury all along... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2006
John Keller |
Election Aftermath: What's in it for the Military? One potential target of the new Congress is the large supplemental spending budgets that fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
Reason
June 2009
Veronique de Rugy |
The Age of Debt Barack Obama's first budget promises "fiscal responsibility" but delivers the opposite. |
Salon.com
September 18, 2000
David Horowitz |
A miracle the press won't report The Democrats may appear to have the upper hand, but George W. Bush is forcing Al Gore into the tightest presidential race in recent history. |
National Defense
March 2010
Harvey M. Sapolsky |
The Enemy the Pentagon Should Fear Most: Health Care The threat that is most likely to hobble U.S. military capabilities is not an international competitor, but health care. |
BusinessWeek
July 22, 2010
Bit & Thomasson |
The Midterms Could Spark a Stock Rally If the Republicans take over the House, history suggests a robust market. If they take over the Senate, so much the better. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2008
John Keller |
2009 DOD budget: A Safe Bet We'll have a new president by the time the next DOD budget request comes out, and Bush looks like he has left any hard decisions up to the next chief executive. |
BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004
Robert Kuttner |
The Budget Mess Bush Can No Longer Ignore The U.S. economy can't grow its way out of such big deficits. |
Salon.com
August 7, 2000
David Horowitz |
Why Bush will win With a unified base, Bush is moving to the center, while Gore continues to alienate his base with the selection of Sen. Joe Lieberman as his running mate. |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Bush: Medicare Drug Benefit Tied To Overall Reform Working quickly, President Bush has drafted the first half of his prescription drug plan for Medicare and sent it to Congress... |
Salon.com
April 11, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Stuck in the middle Without any clear defenders -- and plenty of detractors -- the Bush budget looks awfully vulnerable... |
BusinessWeek
January 19, 2004 |
Bush's Borrowing Is Sapping Our Strength The GOP-led Congressional Budget Office says tax cuts will likely slow growth |
Reason
March 2001
Michael W. Lynch |
Feeding Time In a town where a pile of new laws and programs is considered progress, grousing is often heard about the "do nothing" Republican Congress. If only it were so. The GOP has mastered the art of legislating in at least one area: pork-barrel spending... |
Salon.com
February 15, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
Reaganomics redux Supply-side economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth defends President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut... |
BusinessWeek
March 24, 2010
Albert R. Hunt |
A Presidency Restored to Health Obama's improbable win on health-care reform is one for the history books and will boost his credibility |
BusinessWeek
November 13, 2006
Richard S. Dunham |
Who's Afraid Of Charlie Rangel? Business worries about the Dems gaining control of the House. Maybe it needn't fret. |
Salon.com
February 28, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Bush hits to the center In his first major presidential speech, he's at his bipartisan, platitudinous best... |
Reason
January 2009
David Weigel |
Beat the New Boss D.C. libertarians plot their Obama administration strategies. |
Industrial Physicist
Oct/Nov 2004
Eric J. Lerner |
News Democrats & Republicans: What's the record on physical science? |
Managed Care
February 2001 |
In Medicare Bill, HMOs Got What They Wanted When the dust cleared over how $35 billion in Medicare "givebacks" would be divided, the Republicans prevailed -- Medicare HMOs got a bigger cut than Democrats wanted to give them. Now, President Bush may be poised to give Medicare managed care plans more... |
Salon.com
November 8, 2000
Anthony York |
President without a mandate Can George W. Bush govern effectively if he wins the White House without taking the popular vote? |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Robert Kuttner |
What Killed Off The GOP Deficit Hawks? The Republicans are now the ones making excuses for big deficits. |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2009
Jack & Suzy Welch |
The Power of Pushback Is dissension returning to U.S. politics? We hope so: Its benefits are undeniable. |
BusinessWeek
September 30, 2010
Jonathan D. Salant |
State Candidates Catch A Wave of GOP Cash Companies are spending big on state races in hopes of electing more Republican governors and state legislators. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Michael W. Lynch |
Check's in the Mail How the tax cut went from impossible to inevitable... |
Salon.com
September 8, 2001
Jake Tapper |
The crusade against pork John McCain's moves to cut legislators' pet projects out of the federal budget aren't likely to gain many supporters, despite looming deficits... |
Salon.com
November 25, 2000
David Talbot |
Where are the Democratic fire-breathers? Gore's party has been no match for the victory-or-death Republicans... |
Reason
April 2008
Jeff Flake |
Passing Bad Laws A short guided tour -- by a congressman -- of the worst bills currently in Congress. |
Salon.com
February 22, 2001
Jake Tapper |
The mystery of the docile Democrats How long will they keep jumping through Ringmaster George's hoops? |
Salon.com
November 6, 2000
Andrew Sullivan |
Why is this race even close? Because George W. Bush has campaigned better, proposed more forward-thinking programs and proved, in the end, that he's smarter than Al Gore... |
Salon.com
March 5, 2001
David Horowitz |
Other people's money President Bush's proposed tax cut would wrest control from tax-and-spend Democrats and return power to the people... |
