The U.S. Constitution has never required a balanced federal budget. The Founding Fathers avoided such a requirement in case ...

In its current form, the budget legislation moving through Congress would exacerbate the fiscal challenges we face.

President Donald Trump’s administration is on a crusade against efforts to grapple with climate change. The administration has also been tearing down federal programs that protect Americans against ...

Financial ratings firm Moody’s Ratings downgraded the U.S. government’s credit ratings Friday, citing its rising debt and ...

Gaping budget deficits, on-again-off-again tariff wars and now, soaring bond yields. No wonder the markets are jumpy, our ...

The United States has long benefited from an enormous brain gain, with the most talented scientists and engineers around the world coming to U.S. research universities to teach and to learn. But with ...

Moody’s Investors Service became the final major bond rating agency to strip the United States of its coveted AAA credit rating. Citing the ballooning national debt, chronic budget def ...

Legal limits now exist to prevent the imposition of unconstitutional conditions, and this is especially the case when it ...

Moody’s Ratings downgraded the United States’ debt on Friday ... estimate from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Annual deficits would jump from $1.8 trillion in 2024 to $2 ...

The Trump administration’s undermining of the full faith and credit of the United States has raised the risk of a sovereign debt crisis. Bloomberg The US last ran a budget surplus in 2001 ...

The real problem (is) that US democracy is fundamentally broken, that Congress is incompetent, and that none of the country’s ...