George W. Bush

My enduring question for progressives is one they typically avoid answering, especially those holding elected office: In your perfect world, where, exactly, would you position the top rate?

President Obama insists that he’s prepared for a fight over the sequester with House Republicans. But his remarks read less like a politician scrapping for a fight than one who’s had a…

Despite the lies, spin, and spun lies pouring from the mouths of nearly everyone involved in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations or speaking for those who are involved in them, some…

[First published at Forbes and the Heartlander.] President Obama seems to have a strategy to terminate all of the Bush tax cuts, not just those for “the rich,” as he has been…

Former President George W. Bush policy guru Pete Wehner is very disappointed in these increasingly heartless Republicans. Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released a…

Some ideas sound so plausible that they can fail nine times in a row and still be believed the tenth time. Other ideas sound so implausible that they can succeed…

Something I never thought I would ever see in my former hometown, a wealthy New Jersey suburb of New York City, was a Dollar Store, but one opened recently in…

Barack Obama — from his successful campaign for the presidency, to his time in the White House — has established himself as the most prominent advocate for redistributionist economic and…