The average person wold be forgiven for thing Congress is completely bungling budgeting… (Read more)
A happy 50th birthday for the congressio...
President Biden’s White House recently delivered to Congress its “Mid-Session Review” of the federal budget. The bottom line was bad: the deficit for 2024 is projected to be $1.87 trillion and the nation likely will be $37 trillion in debt by the end of the year. This news arrived just one week after the 50th […]
Why more Americans should visit the offi...
Recently, I conducted an informal survey. I asked 10 friends and professional colleagues whether they had ever visited the office of their member of Congress. Not a single one of them had. I was not surprised: Until I went to work for Congress in my early 30s, I had not visited a legislator or his […]
New York City mayoral race shows ranked-...
Ranked-choice voting passed another big test in New York City. Around 800,000 New Yorkers voted in last week’s Democratic mayoral primary. Now as the final vote tallies come in, despite city officials’ mishandling of the vote tally, we can see that critics’ worst fears about this voting system were needless. The city’s Board of Elections […]
Cronyism charges jump the shark
If I had a dollar for every time the words “crony” and “cronyism” appear in print these days, well, I’d be flush. When I plugged those terms into Nexis, the database warned me it would take a while to tally the thousands of media stories from the past few years containing either expression. As an […]
Yes, the Government Can Open Your Mail W...
By law, first-class mail is sealed against inspection, meaning that government officials may not open it without first getting a warrant from a judge. A citizen would be forgiven for imagining that this law ensures his or her mail is private, but that’s not quite true. For one thing, other classes of mail do not […]
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