Op-Ed

In a hearing this morning, the House Ways and Means Committee examined “improper payments” made in the Earned Income Tax Credit program, which distributed $64 billion in refundable tax …

IRS 1040 forms at a post office, April 14, 2011. (Photo: Steven Depolo) Each year, unknown thousands of law-abiding American citizens refuse to pay taxes, driven by …

Jennifer Steinhauer in the Times reports that some Republicans are running away from the Ryan Plan (you know, the one that changes Medicare from a health insurance plan to …

President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 20, 2011. After a lengthy meeting with Netanyahu on …

Washington - When Richard Nixon won his 49-state landslide over George McGovern in 1972, Pauline Kael, the legendary New Yorker film critic, was moved to observe: “I live in …

The day after Congress passed health care, an opponent called it “a fiscal Frankenstein.” In fact those are fitting words for Roth Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). Roths are great …

Billionaires are different from you and me, for obvious reasons, including the fact that they buy much pricier baubles than we do.

Rally for Barack Obama in Manchester, NH, September 13, 2008. (Photo: binarydreams) In 2009, then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel infamously said that progressives are “fucking …

Israel is now dictating conditions to the United States and upbraiding President Obama for having the nerve to suggest finally following UN Resolution 242, which has long called for …

It is not true, as a Wall Street Journal reviewer claimed, that the HBO movie version of Andrew Sorkin's book “Too Big to Fail” was “Too Boring to Watch.” …