budgeting

November 20, 2019|budgeting, fiscal policy, National Debt

Restoring Fiscal Conflict

by James Wallner|

U.S. Capitol (Tono Balaguer/Shutterstock.com)

Regardless of who wins in politics, the national debt grows, and America, it seems, has entered a new age of debt.

March 29, 2018|Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, budgeting, Congress

Congressional Budgeting is a Matter of Will, Not Procedure

by James Wallner|

Katherine Welles / Shutterstock.com

Changing procedure won't fix our budget woes: Congress has to make hard choices.

January 22, 2018|budgeting, Congress, congressional majority, DACA, government shutdown, legislature, National Park Service

How to End Hostage Taking Through Government Shutdowns

by John O. McGinnis|

The National Museum of the American Indian is closed due to the government shutdown on October 4, 2013 in New York. Adam Gregor/Shutterstock.com

Government shutdowns are a kind of hostage-taking, and they'll only stop when we deprive legislators of the ability to shut government down.

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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