“Ceasefire” on C-SPAN

Michael M. Grynbaum at WP: As a young producer at CNN in the 1990s, Sam Feist spent countless hours working on “Crossfire,” one of the first cable news shows to pit partisan pundits against one another. At lunch one day, the co-host Michael Kinsley mused about an...

The Ticking Time Bomb of Debt

Congress is getting ready to increase the federal debt. Yuval Levin: Just continuing existing tax policy would drive the federal debt well beyond 200 percent of the size of the economy over the next 30 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. By that...

Endowment Tax

Jessica Blake at Inside Higher Ed: House Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee released the full version of a long-awaited tax bill Monday that does for higher ed exactly what they suggested it would in a draft version Friday: dramatically increase the excise...

A Trick Rule

At The Hill, Don Wolfensberger explains the procedural trick by which House Republicans barred resolutions of inquiry: Last week a special rule was scheduled to consider just five matters, all resolutions to disapprove regulations promulgated during the Biden...

The Missing Branch

At The Atlantic, Yuval Levin writes that Congress was assertive in the 1980s and 1990s, but… The reasons for the subsequent decline in Congress’s stature and assertiveness are complex, but some of the very measures Gingrich took to consolidate power on Capitol...

Failed State Update: The Budget Hole

Eric He, Rachel Bluth and Lindsey Holden at Politico: Ten people briefed on the matter said state lawmakers are being told to brace for a shortfall of at least $10 billion when Newsom presents his revised budget next week. In early January, the governor’s Department...

Honoring Fallen Journalists in Ohio

Brandon Cantwell at The Tribune Chronicle: The drizzle and overcast skies over the Mahoning Valley set the mood as members of the Youngstown Press Club gathered Saturday afternoon to honor fallen journalists.   Fifteen members of the club stood before fellow...