Editors at National Review Online explore the future of major American entitlement programs. Politicians in both parties have behaved as if old-age entitlement programs are infinitely sustainable and require no…
Christopher Jacobs writes for the Federalist about multiple factors supporting the end of Obamacare health insurance subsidies. Congress returns to Washington this week, and with apologies to Yogi Berra, it’s…
James Capretta revisits the federal government’s primary funding challenge. During the raucous debate surrounding the GOP-sponsored reconciliation bill, the trustees for Social Security and Medicare rather quietly released their annual…
Christopher Jacobs of the Federalist places the controversy over recent comments from former President Donald Trump in context. There they go again. Following a series of comments by Donald Trump…
Michael Tanner uses a National Review Online column to emphasize the long-term negative outlook for American entitlement programs. If you blinked last week, you may have missed the latest report…
Editors at National Review respond to the spending increases in the latest federal budget deal. Congress has reached a consensus on spending — spend! — and the Trump administration is…
Hadley Heath Manning understands the typical conservative arguments (involving costs and constitutionality) against federal government involvement in maternity leave. She also understands that nonconservatives reject those arguments. So her Washington…
During yesterday’s presentation of Governor McCrory’s 2015-2017 state budget, State Budget Director Lee Roberts mentioned that 76 percent of new spending in the budget’s first year is allocated towards education and…
The Senate’s FY 2014-2015 budget proposal emphasizes a need to rein in Medicaid costs at the state level, which is undoubtedly paramount. Medicaid does cost too much, but a statement…
This correspondent recently shared a classroom lectern with a left-of-center partisan who told a group of college students that they should not consider Social Security an expensive government entitlement program.…
The cover of the latest Barron’s features a photo of President Obama and the headline: “Follow Me. We Can Be Like Greece.” Gene Epstein‘s cover story explains. In his State…
As Washington types turn their attention to the pending spending sequester — a $965 billion reduction in projected government spending over 10 years — the Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner tells…