U.S. businesses have absorbed most of the cost of the tariffs imposed by President Trump so far, but the burden of that cost will shift to consumers in the coming months as the full range of import ...

Good evening. As the government shutdown stretched into a seventh day, the Trump administration upped the stakes in the showdown by threatening not to provide back pay for furloughed federal workers.

Happy Friday! Day 3 of the government shutdown saw the messaging battle continue with no real progress toward a resolution, meaning that federal agencies will stay closed into next week. Among the ...

Good evening. The Supreme Court just allowed the Trump administration to unilaterally freeze more than $4 billion in foreign aid, delivering another win for President Trump in his push for more power ...

On Day 10 of the government shutdown, White House budget director Russell Vought announced that the mass firings of federal workers have begun, dramatically escalating the pain of the political ...

Opinions about tax policy are divided in the U.S. along fairly predictable partisan lines, with Republicans typically expressing preferences for lower taxes compared to Democrats, but how do those ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system is ...

Health insurance premiums will likely skyrocket next year, despite the Obama administration’s consistent assurance that consumers will not experience sticker shock under the president’s health care ...

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is beginning to receive book of the year awards, but has it changed anything within economics? There are two ways in which is has, one involving ...

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you, and thank you to the Center for the National Interest for honoring me with this invitation. I would like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign ...

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, author of a comprehensive new book, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, says Barack Obama was an amazing law student. During a broad ...

President Obama vetoed a bill last week that would have limited the taxpayer money spent on expense accounts for former presidents. The bill, titled the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act and ...