WASHINGTON -- With Congress gridlocked in debates over taxes and spending, the new chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ...

Austerity, in the form of forcibly moving the federal budget closer to balance despite the presence of high and sustained unemployment, will in no way or form assist the American economy.

Putting aside the debates between the effectiveness supply-side economics and whether an increase in sales tax would disproportionately negatively impact the poor, state sales tax only plans cannot make up for the lost revenue under current laws. The reason?

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) used his State of the State address Tuesday evening to push to eliminate the state income tax and to call for overhaulin...

For anyone who's been paying attention, it's long been obvious that Paul Ryan is a political fraud.

WASHINGTON -- Lying just beneath Mitt Romney's dismissal of nearly half the electorate at a high-dollar fundraiser in May is an admission not as immed...

Has supply-side economics worked? The conjecture says it could; the data says it hasn't.

So Democrats may have to come up with a new narrative. They can not flourish by promising to be the party that raises taxes and makes cuts to popular programs, even if they succeed in inheriting the Republican's former mantle as the party of fiscal responsibility.

Whenever Newt Gingrich has been asked to explain why he is supposedly more "conservative" than other Republican presidential candidates, he has replied that he "helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics." If that were true, I would know about it.

This month the Republicans took a stand against tax cuts because of the fiscal implications of those cuts. For the first time in recent memory, Milton Friedman and the Republican Party of my grandfather were redeemed. This was a significant point that should not be lost.

I applaud the president for making the case against regressive tax cuts as the lodestar of economic policy. We cannot afford to double down on the failed, plutocratic pipe dream that is trickle down economics.

Whether it's the bronze bull encountered by those occupying Wall Street, the fixation with a Chris Christie presidency not to be, or the ex post facto...

The reality-inverting summer of 1981 laid the foundation for a dissociative political culture that nothing yet has been able to shake, and we're all paying the price.

As conservative movement figure Grover Norquist put it, "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag i...

Whatever Obama accomplished during his first two years in office his decision to normalize the sweeping changes in American governance of the George W. Bush period will likely neutralize any lasting positive effects for Democrats.