With state budgets under considerable strain, the time has come for the federal government to take a hard look at the capacities of state education agencies to fulfill progressive education mandates.

Does Detroit’s fate foretell the end of American democracy?

President Obama attacked Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget as “nothing but thinly veiled Social Darwinism.” That is not surprising. What is surprising is that the chairman of a major committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops launched a similar scathing attack against Ryan.

Market-based measures of public pensions funding may better informstate governments and taxpayers of the liabilities and risks they face.

Greve argues that a state bankruptcy option would represent a step towards restoring fiscal sanity--as long as it succeeds in breaking the stranglehold of public-sector unions over state politics and budgets.

Newt Gingrich and former Indianapolis mayor Stephen Goldsmith will conduct a four-part course on the principles necessary to fundamentally change how to think about and implement government policies and budgets.

This article is the first part of a two-part examination of the contentious issue of how state governments' provision of goods and services to the public should be taxed under a VAT.

Several studies have shown that public-sector workers receive higher compensation than their counterparts in the private sector. Although, federal contractors have some of the advantages of private sector workers, in that poor performers can be dismissed and the composition of the contractor workforce altered, it is possible that they are overcompensated just as federal employees are right now.