The U.S. national debt has crossed $40 trillion, and according to the Washington Post, it got there faster than the forecasters themselves predicted. These are the same forecasters, by the…
Tammy-Jo Pritchett
The Republican Party, with the reflexive predictability of a Pavlovian dog hearing its dinner bell, proposes cutting taxes on the rich. We are watching it again.
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The CBO projects a $200 billion shortfall in tariff revenue, but the real deficit driver is the $2.1 trillion gap caused by rising Social Security, Medicare, and debt interest—not the…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
The federal government just spent $5.1 million covering four bronze statues near the Lincoln Memorial in 23.75-karat gold leaf. Nearly twenty-four karat. I looked it up. That's the stuff they…
Tammy-Jo Pritchett
Internal budget documents reveal a transfer of public wealth so brazen, so structurally deliberate, that it would be comforting to dismiss it as mere tackiness. It is not mere tackiness.…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-WhitfieldThe Government Accountability Office just released what every displaced federal worker, every gutted agency, and every community that lost services already knew in their bones. Elon Musk’s Department of Government…
Mars Vega-KaplanElon Musk stood in front of the cameras and told us he was going to carve $2 trillion out of the federal budget. Two trillion. He put up a website…
Buck Buckhorn
