A View From D. C.

Living through the dog days of August 2011 entails more than enduring heat and humidity. This is the period of congressional recess where ad...

The race for the presidency has begun. The debt ceiling agreement and its plan to reduce federal spending was the first salvo in the battle ...

President Barack Obama needs to end negotiations immediately. The time for talk is over. It is time to get a deal done and it is clear th...

The drama surrounding the deficit reduction talks is not a good sign for domestic programs. With Republicans dug against tax increases the...

Now that President Barack Obama is more directly involved in the discussions to negotiate an agreement on deficit reduction, the pressure ...