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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... |
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? |
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... |
Reason November 2008 Veronique de Rugy |
Fear of a Unified Government What happens to federal spending when the Democrats control both Congress and the presidency? |
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... |
Parameters Autumn 2008 Travis Sharp |
Tying US Defense Spending to GDP: Bad Logic, Bad Policy Defense spending should be determined according to threat-based analysis and not fixed at 4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). |
BusinessWeek August 5, 2010 Peter Coy |
The Wisdom and Folly of the Bush Tax Cuts Most economists agree there's little choice but to end tax cuts from George W. Bush's era. That means the fiscal war in Washington is only going to get uglier. |
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 November 17, 2003 Howard Gleckman |
As Growth Sizzles, What's A Dem To Do? Presidential hopefuls will try to ignite middle class rage over breaks for the wealthy. |
Financial Advisor October 2006 Bruce W. Fraser |
Economic Pin Balls As it stands today, Bush's economic legacy is still uncertain. Is Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. more than a Hail Mary? |
Reason April 2009 Matt Welch |
The Liberaltarian Jackalope The liberal-libertarian rapprochement is probably dead on arrival. |
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? |
Salon.com February 22, 2001 Jake Tapper |
The mystery of the docile Democrats How long will they keep jumping through Ringmaster George's hoops? |
On Wall Street February 1, 2013 Mason Braswell |
Five Questions with University of Virginia's George K. Yin The professor of law and taxation at the University of Virginia discusses the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. |
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... |
BusinessWeek November 17, 2010 Coy & Przybyla |
Debt and Taxes: Will America Ever Grow Up? Two new proposals to get serious about the U.S. budget deficit are colliding with the same old dysfunctional politics. |
BusinessWeek April 6, 2011 Przybyla & Armstrong |
The Audacity of Paul Ryan His plan would privatize Medicare, cut taxes, and cap social spending. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 John Keller |
Defense budgets headed down, no matter who's in the White House In fact, fuel prices should have a much broader influence on defense spending over the next several years than who's resident in the White House. |
BusinessWeek January 24, 2005 Howard Gleckman |
The Beltway Battle Ahead If Bush is willing to deal, he'll have a chance to fix Social Security, say both Democratic and Republican insiders. But he'll need to build bridges with Democrats and sell economic conservatives on compromise. |
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. |
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 Ryan Donmoyer |
Brinkmanship Over the Bush Tax Cuts High-income Americans could be the beneficiaries of a looming fight over whether to extend or let expire the Bush-era tax cuts. |
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 May 2009 Veronique de Rugy |
When Do Deficits Matter? While Democrats and Republicans switch sides regarding deficit spending, economists try to pin down a tipping point. |
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.... |
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 April 2007 David Weigel |
The West Will Rise Again Is the South's hold over American politics on the wane? Book review: Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South, by Thomas F. Schaller. |
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. |
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Julie Hirschfeld Davis |
Obama's Trump Card on Oil Subsidies The President (again) calls for cutting oil industry tax breaks |
BusinessWeek February 24, 2010 Paula Dwyer |
How the Political Gridlock in Washington Might End Anger at Washington and midterm elections are driving both parties to recalibrate their self-interest. A tentative bipartisanship is emerging. |
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... |
BusinessWeek January 19, 2004 |
Bush's Borrowing Is Sapping Our Strength The GOP-led Congressional Budget Office says tax cuts will likely slow growth |
BusinessWeek December 10, 2009 Ryan Donmoyer |
How Many Ways Can You Tax the Rich? Democrats are scrambling to fund their wish list while keeping Obama's pledge to go easy on most Americans. |
Managed Care June 2003 John Carroll |
Howard Dean, MD, Sees Universal Coverage as a Realistic Goal The former Vermont governor at first greeted managed care with good will. Now, however, he thinks it is shortsighted in its dealing with doctors. Unlike President Bush, he wouldn't call on it to rescue Medicare. |
BusinessWeek August 11, 2003 Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
The Bush Tax Cuts Are Sapping America's Strength The cost is nearly three times as much as the tab from September 11, Afghanistan, Iraq, and homeland security combined. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Michael W. Lynch |
Check's in the Mail How the tax cut went from impossible to inevitable... |
Salon.com August 27, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Anti-Social Security As Bush's panel on Social Security tries to skirt open meeting laws, Democrats prepare to attack the president's privatization plans... |
Reason November 2008 Jim Henley |
Between Iraq and a Soft Place In Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats, by Matthew Yglesias, discusses the role Iraq played in Obama's success. |
Reason February 2001 Cathy Young |
Venus at the Ballot Box Women may lean toward the "Mommy State," but their politics are more complex than pundits recognize... |
InternetNews November 10, 2006 Roy Mark |
Will Dems Change Tech Policy? One-party rule in Washington ends next year when the 110th Congress convenes with Democrats taking over the House and the Senate. What does this mean for technology policy? |
BusinessWeek November 20, 2006 Dunham & Javers |
The Politics Of Change As power shifts on Capitol Hill, business faces a new reality |
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 May 2008 Matt Welch |
When Coalitions Dissolve As the GOP breaks apart, some blame the vanishing breed of free market Republicans. |
Salon.com October 27, 2000 Cathy Young |
One good reason to vote for Bush Social Security is on its last legs, and the limited privatization backed by the GOP candidate can save it. But Al Gore won't even admit there's a problem... |
Salon.com December 6, 2002 Bill Clinton |
Clinton: Democrats "were missing in action" In a major political address this week, former President Bill Clinton bluntly dissected the Democrats' recent electoral losses. Moving to the left, he said, is not a solution -- but fighting back is. |
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 |
Insurance & Technology January 28, 2010 |
Full Text: Obama's State of the Union Address The following are remarks U.S. President Barack Obama made during his State of the Union Wednesday before a joint session of Congress in Washington. |
BusinessWeek October 1, 2007 Jane Sasseen |
It's The Economy Stupid 2.0 With a possible slowdown looming, the economy will be front and center in the presidential campaign. |
Salon.com March 23, 2001 Alicia Montgomery |
Bully pulpits Democrats accuse an "insensitive" Bush of talking down a fragile economy reliant on mass psychology. Even some lefty economists say this is bunk... |
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 October 20, 2000 Jake Tapper |
Bush to youth: I'm cooler Saying Gore has an "eight-track ideology in an MP3 world," the GOP candidate spins a strong message on Social Security... |