Bunk. In the age of irresponsibility, when you take a shortcut, you end up with $275 million from the New York Yankees. So far, there have been two chief reactions to the crisis in American authority.

The joy of spending huge amounts of tax dollars — Other People’s Money — is a truth obvious and eternal, but the corrupting effects of a systemwide shift toward such subventions are more subtle, and ...

Some Republicans in Congress have proposed changing the budget reconciliation process to begin using a “current policy” baseline that ignores expirations under law, instead of the traditional “current ...