Under current law, the U.S. Department of Defense automatically faces significant spending cuts over the next 10 years—cuts that america's civilian and military leaders have cadidly described as "devastating" and "very high risk."

John Boehner is caught between a rock and a hard place in order to get the House of Representatives to vote on his debt plan.

Where if anywhere are we getting adult leadership on major public policy issues this year? The answer is where the Founding Fathers seem to have least expected it, from the House of Representatives, and specifically from its Republican leaders.

Many Republican House members and the bloggers and Tea Partiers who cheered their victory in gaining a majority in November 2010 seem to be seething with discontent and eager for confrontation.They believe, reasonably, that that victory represented a repudiation of the vast expansion of government by the Obama...

Here are a couple of things to keep in mind about Newt Gingrich, as he leads in polls for the Republican presidential nomination nationally and in Iowa and South Carolina and may be threatening Mitt Romney's lead in New Hampshire. One is that he is an autodidact. A second is that he has incredible perseverance.

Policymakers should not wait any longer to address the growing fiscal crisis in this country. Responsible reform of Medicare is a major component of any plan to place the country back on a sustainable fiscal path.

A fiscal crisis threatens to engulf the federal budget, jeopardizing the health and vigor of the American economy. When the next president and Congress take office in January 2009, they will face one crucial question that has been almost absent from the current election campaign: how to close the enormous...

The outcome of the US debt limit crisis is far from clear, but it will inevitably frame the central issue in the 2012 campaign: should the US continue moving towards a more European set of public policies?