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Terry Jones writes for Issues and Insights about disturbing new poll results. Is there a serious crisis of confidence in the Social Security system? It certainly looks that way, based…
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…
Susie Moore writes for RedState.com about a significant legal win for the Trump administration’s anti-waste efforts.
Mark Warshawsky highlights bad news for America’s long-term fiscal picture. Last week, the Treasury Department released, with no fanfare and little attention, the 2025 Financial Report (FR) of the US…
Recent changes enacted under the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) place North Carolina's Medicaid financing model directly at risk. If North Carolina’s Medicaid program is to remain viable over the…
Jack Davis writes for the Western Journal about more bad news surrounding Obamacare. Obamacare subsidies are a tangled web of fraud, according to a new report from the General Accounting…
Christopher Jacobs writes for the Federalist about the downside of a new Trump administration deal. Should the rooster get credit for the sun rising in the morning? Hardly. Yet in…
Yuval Levin looks beyond rhetoric to examine facts about federal government spending. The most striking thing about general spending patterns in the second Trump administration so far is how much…
A Canadian voted in several recent elections in North Carolina, demonstrating continued weakness in our state’s system of citizenship verification for voting. There are ways to strengthen citizenship verification. The…
Neal Freeman writes for National Review Online about the uncertain future of Social Security. The Social Security system today is, in essence, a pay-as-you-go welfare program in which beneficiaries are…
Dominic Pino writes for National Review Online about a major media outlet’s dubious take on Social Security.
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…