President

Budget Battles

  • Why Schumer’s Immigration Deal Doesn’t Add Up

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    New York Sen. Chuck Schumer is taking a victory lap on immigration reform, after having brokered a deal between the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to establish a new visa program to allow...

  • Immigration Deal Likely As Senate Reaches Agreement

    By Thomas Ferraro and Steve Holland, Reuters

    With U.S. business and labor now in agreement, a bipartisan group of senators has resolved all major issues in a pending deal to overhaul the U.S. immigration system and aims to unveil it after...

  • Why Google Could Elect the Next President

    By Craig Timberg, The Washington Post

    What would it mean for democracy if Google were actually 'evil'? Psychologist Robert Epstein has been testing the impact of a fictitious search engine, which he calls 'Kadoodle,' that manipulated...

  • The Few, the Proud ... and Now the Sequestered

    By Reuters

    United States military academies have trained America's future presidents, astronauts and generals, one of them for more than 200 years. But the schools' illustrious histories are not enough to spare...

  • For Once, Good News on Defense Spending

    By David Francis

    Big programs still drive DOD spending, but acquisition costs are dropping across the Pentagon. But pervasive cost creep makes it hard to plan.