Elections

Budget Battles

  • DeMint Leaving Senate to Head Conservative Think Tank

    By Sean Sullivan and RACHEL WEINER, The Washington Post

    Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a leading conservative voice in the Senate, will resign his seat in January to become the next president of the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, he announced...

  • What Obama Said to Romney Over Lunch

    By The Fiscal Times Staff

    Did you know that the Barack Obama is on a Vegan diet? Maybe that’s why he’s served Mitt Romney a specially prepared post Thanksgiving feast when the former Republican presidential contender met with...

  • If Congress Can’t Cut a Fiscal Deal, Game Over

    By Edward Morrissey

    In the aftermath of the election, we can now look forward to our political class in Washington addressing issues that have reached crisis proportions. The huge deficits of the past four years have...

  • Krugman's 'Twinkie' Defense of Taxing the Rich

    By Liz Peek

    Some people miss the 1950s because of the era’s simple pleasures like Twinkies and Howdy Doody. Paul Krugman misses the decade’s high tax rates on the rich. In a recent column, he harks back to the...

  • Obamacare: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

    By Sarah Kliff, The Washington Post

    After surviving a Supreme Court decision and a presidential election, the Obama administration’s health-care law faces another challenge: a public largely unaware of major changes that will roll out...