Eric Boehm

An apt ending to Joe Biden's war on junk fees, which only made sense if you refused to acknowledge trade-offs and believed federal regulators are all-knowing.

This week's House Budget Committee hearing showed bipartisan agreement about the seriousness of America's fiscal problems.

What is paid out to Social Security beneficiaries is not a return on workers' investments. It's just a government expenditure, like any other.

Part of the 1,500-page spending bill Congress is expected to pass this week would obligate federal taxpayers to fund the Key Bridge replacement.

DURING PRESIDENT DONALD Trump's first term in office, the national debt increased by $8 trillion—due, in large part, to huge spending hikes that Congress passed and Trump signed.

SEVERAL PROPOSED ELECTION reforms on the 2024 ballot offered promising solutions: Reduce the power of partisan primaries, ensure more robust competition in general elections, and increase the likelihood that winning campaigns represent the median voter rather than a lesser-of-two-evils result.

DOGE won't necessarily have to kill any of Republicans' sacred cows—but they will have to be put on a diet.

It's a story about vulnerable people, powerless against the rise of a sweeping authoritarian regime, each seeking a way to cope with the unprecedented times in which they live.

The Social Security Fairness Act will boost payouts to public sector workers who receive pensions and did not pay taxes to support Social Security.

Despite campaigning against Donald Trump's tariff hikes, Biden left many of them in place.