The United States is the most competitive country in the world. We compete in sports, business, medicine, law, and academia -- even religion. Everythi...

No longer in Washington, I try to withhold judgment. But when the best of writers, E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post, writes: "America is not in dec...

The presidential campaign ignored the real needs of the country. Four problems -- four solutions. First, Congress needs to take the government back ...

The president and Congress refuse to compete in globalization, but compete in the worst game of all: contributions before country.

Our founding fathers were politicians who believed in government. They didn't have economists hovering over them to make sure they created growth fo...

The United States needs to develop an industrial policy to make Corporate America want to invest and create jobs in our country.

Higher corporate taxes do not reduce corporate capital formation. They shift it abroad. The result is domestic job losses and lower domestic wages.

If the president would protect steel, motor vehicles, computers and machine tools like President Reagan did, it would create millions of jobs. President Obama refuses to enforce our trade laws.

Even if Occupy could agree on one purpose, Occupy wouldn't work because Congress no longer responds to the needs of the people. It only responds to the needs of the lobbyists. The people have lost control of their government.

Instead of making our tax laws competitive, President Obama continues the tax benefit to off-shore or get rid of jobs. Instead of enforcing our trade laws, like he is sworn to do, the president ignores them.

Elected to the U.S. Senate seven times, I know about the running for re-election on presidents' policies. In fact, my re-election in 1998 can be attributed in large measure to my vigorous opposition to President Clinton's NAFTA with Mexico.

The people have lost control of their government. Wall Street, the big banks, and Corporate America are the biggest contributors to the re-election of the Congress, and their lobbyists have seized control.

Cain is fighting hard, but he will fail. "I'm going to raise taxes on 84 percent of America!" is not the best way to get elected in this country, and it is definitely not the way to win a GOP primary.

Ezra Kline published in The Washington Post an analysis of what Washington should have done to create jobs. And Eugene Robinson in The Washington Pos...