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Across the states, America’s public employee pension plans are a ticking, insolvent time bomb. “For most states,” the Pew State Fiscal Health...
The American political arena is littered with data. Some of it is valuable and leads to insightful commentary; much of it is garbage. Determining the...
By Peter Roff When you're responsible for other people's money, mixing it with morality is a mistake. Not that climate change is a moral issue per se,...
When you’re responsible for other people’s money, mixing it with morality is a mistake. Not that climate change is a moral issue per se, but many...
Over the last forty years, the State of the Union has diminished in importance. This isn’t the fault of any one president as much as the advent of...
The image of America as a great nation, the hope of humankind, is not very much in vogue these days. Our common sense of greatness has been eclipsed...
If you haven’t figured it out yet, the red states differ from the blue ones. The city dwellers are different from the folks who live in the country....
They say success in politics has much to do with timing. Hitting the right issue in the right way at the right moment can make a campaign. Failing to...
The Senate's proposed immigration compromise is dead. Mercifully so, thanks to Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who, along with several of his colleagues,...
The divide that’s split the nation is real. The red states are different from the blue. The cities are different than the suburbs and ex-urbs. And...
The inflationary spiral that drove prices up during the first years of the Biden administration has ended. That’s the good news. The bad news is...
Debates matter. In primaries and general elections, they allow candidates to introduce themselves to the voters. They help refine the agenda, let...
The 2024 election looks very much like it will be a rerun of 2020—despite the fact that to many people, Donald Trump and Joe Biden represent the...
No serious person has ever argued that American elections should run more smoothly than they do. By design, they are usually raucous affairs full of...
The latest data suggests a drop in energy prices may have tamed the inflation monster. President Joe Biden certainly hopes so, since the marks he’s...
It’s time to acknowledge that investments made based on ESG considerations – environmental policy, social justice concerns, and corporate...
The GOP's failure to quickly settle on a successor to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appears to have damaged the party's interests and image, perhaps...
On The Tonight Show Monday, host Jimmy Fallon suggested that talk of a bi-partisan compromise leading to the selection of a new speaker of the House...