Elections

Budget Battles

  • McCain Discusses Campaign Cash

    By ALINA SELYUKH, Reuters

    The U.S. campaign finance system is so heavily influenced by big-spending interest groups and wealthy individuals that it will take "huge scandals" to change it, and those scandals are looming,...

  • Who Will Win Control of Congress?

    By Eric Pianin

    House Call: Democrats Need A ‘Wave’ to Reclaim Seats Mike Ross, a Blue Dog Democrat from Arkansas, is bailing out of the House at the end of the year with an eye to a possible run for governor in two...

  • Santorum Could Find Home Turf Hostile

    By Eric Pianin

    Former senator Rick Santorum is counting on a strong GOP primary showing next month in his home state of Pennsylvania. But presidential candidates down through the years have frequently been...

  • Jobs: A New Look at the So-called 'New Normal'

    By Mark Thoma

    All the king’s horses and all the king’s men won’t be able to put the economy back together again. That was the belief after the 2001 recession. The stock market bubble had collapsed, and the common...

  • The Entitled States of America: We Want More!

    By Charles Sykes, Wisconsin Policy Institute

    Milton Friedman may have argued that there is no such thing as a free lunch, but you’d have a hard time convincing millions of Americans of that today. They know better – or at least they think they...