In preparation for this weekend's huge snowstorm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has abruptly halted ongoing terminations of disaster relief workers, CNN reports. CNN's Gabe Cohen reported ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system is ...

A new analysis of the Republican megabill currently under consideration in the Senate finds that it could be much less costly than previously estimated — as long as you’re willing to ignore the cost ...

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you, and thank you to the Center for the National Interest for honoring me with this invitation. I would like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign ...

This week, America wraps up the fortieth anniversary of its most dangerous constitutional crises since the Civil War, with little celebration – and arguably no real insight into its lessons. Saturday ...

Opinions about tax policy are divided in the U.S. along fairly predictable partisan lines, with Republicans typically expressing preferences for lower taxes compared to Democrats, but how do those ...

President Obama vetoed a bill last week that would have limited the taxpayer money spent on expense accounts for former presidents. The bill, titled the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act and ...

Fresh off his surprisingly close challenge of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries – and her ignominious defeat in the general election – Bernie Sanders has emerged as the leader of progressive ...

The United States established the Civil Service 142 years ago, in response to the massive corruption that followed from the previous “spoils system” in Washington DC. Prior to that, all federal ...

The conservative firebrand Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) – who just formally announced at Liberty University this morning that he’s running for president in 2016 – has been shaking up Washington ever since he ...

The Department of Education announced Tuesday that it is shifting some of its key functions to other parts of the federal government as part of President Trump’s plan to dismantle and eventually ...

Happy Tuesday! Santa Claus delivered President Trump an early Christmas present today in the form of a blockbuster GDP report for the third quarter. (OK, it was actually the Commerce Department that ...