Gallup says the share of people who now call their taxes too high is well above the roughly 50% average seen in its surveys in the early 2000s, following President George W. Bush’s 2001 tax cuts. But ...

The International Monetary Fund said Thursday that it expects to lower its growth projections for the global economy this year due to the war in the Middle East. IMF Managing Director Kristalina ...

Optimism surged Friday that an Iran peace deal may be close at hand after Tehran said it had fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels and President Trump told Axios that he expects ...

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 ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

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 ...

Standing behind a podium in the Rose Garden, President Bill Clinton delivered a bold prediction 20 years ago. “Well ahead of the most ambitious schedule, America has balanced the budget,” he declared.

President Trump wants to increase defense spending by hundreds of billions of dollars in fiscal year 2027, for a total of $1.5 trillion, according to his budget request released Friday. At the same ...

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 ...

The United States established the Civil Service 142 years ago, in response to the massive corruption that followed from the previous “spoils system” in Washington DC. Prior to that, all federal ...

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 ...