* Tweaks to the phaseout of clean energy tax credits. The Senate plan reportedly would allow more projects to take advantage ...

Good evening! On this date 95 years ago, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, raising tariffs on thousands of imported goods in a bid to protect domestic jobs and ...

Good Wednesday evening. The outlook for the Social Security and Medicare trust funds has gotten worse, the programs trustees said in annual reports released today. We've got details on that and more.

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system ...

Before the smoke turned white at the Vatican on March 13, 2013, people who knew Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, believed he would fundamentally change the Vatican ...

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, author of a comprehensive new book, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, says Barack Obama was an amazing law student. During a ...

This week, America wraps up the fortieth anniversary of its most dangerous constitutional crises since the Civil War, with little celebration – and arguably no real insight into its lessons.

Standing behind a podium in the Rose Garden, President Bill Clinton delivered a bold prediction 20 years ago. “Well ahead of the most ambitious schedule, America has balanced the budget,” he ...

When Congress returns from the summer recess next month, they’ll have just a few weeks to fund the government past the end of September and avoid a shutdown of federal agencies. Lawmakers are ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is trying to convince President Joe Biden to embrace a plan that would fully fund Social Security for more than seven decades, as well as raise benefits by $2,400 a year.

What would it cost to arm more teachers is America’s schools, as President Trump has proposed? The Washington Post’s Philip Bump did some back-of-the-envelope math to try to find the answer.