The Republican presidential field is beginning to take shape, and candidates and maybe-candidates are figuring out where they stand and what to say. Sooner or later, they will need to say something about education. May we suggest a few talking points...?
The economics of the debt ceiling are complicated, but the bottom line is that the ceiling is far more forgiving than is commonly understood. When the ceiling is reached, little happens except that spending slows down.
The largest number of illegal immigrants enter the United States, especially from Mexico, but the number of Mexicans crossing the border illegally has apparently slowed to a trickle during the past several years...
The Democrats’ position in the negotiations to raise the debt limit and deal with runaway government debt can be summarized in one mantric phrase: the rich must “pay their fair share” in taxes...
The big news of out of Southern California these past few days was the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – William’s first visit to the Golden State; Catherine’s first visit to the U.S., period...
In an attempt to gain rhetorical leverage and frame the negotiations, Team Obama is trying to impute two new apparently objective but absurd definitions to the word balance...
There are five principal reasons to be skeptical Greece can continue to navigate the space between European Monetary Union support and financial markets concern about their creditworthiness...
Barack Obama wasn’t the first U.S. president to take to the White’s House Rose Garden, as he did Friday, in an attempt to assure the public that the economy will come around...
Assuming the projections that Obama will raise and spend $1 billion are true, this observer would still argue that the election will be decided by other factors...
Edward Lazear, a professor at Stanford University and former economic adviser to President George W. Bush, talks about President Barack Obama's economic policies and the U.S. labor market...
Laura Tyson, President's Council on Jobs & Competitiveness, and Ed Lazear, Stanford University, discuss the day's dismal employment data, and what it will take to generate job growth in America...
Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn, Jr., on the growing problem of cheating by teachers and principals in an effort to boost results for standardized tests...
