Baker is a former Kirby Research Fellow in National Security Policy Abstract: The Obama Administration’s FY 2012 budget request suggests that the Administration has subordinated the nation’s defense ...

With budget chaos deepening in Washington and the politics of gesture ascendant, it’s hard to know how seriously to take President Obama’s FY 2012 budget proposals--released against the backdrop of ...

Parenthetical "t's" follow the first two figures, as in trillion. The second one requires a "b" as in billion for a suffix. This trifecta of numbers could dictate where the Republican party is on ...

A solemn HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan unveiled the 2012 budget for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) yesterday and delivered a most fitting quote: "We can do more with less." ...

Abstract: In his 2012 budget proposal, President Obama uses lofty rhetoric about fiscal realities and hard choices—and proceeds to give the green light to yet more spending, yet higher taxes, and ...

Read The Atlantic's first take on the president's 2012 budget here. The president's 2012 budget, which aims to create $1.1 trillion in savings over ten years, isn't really a budget. The 2012 budget is ...

The Obama administration’s FY2012 transportation budget request shows their continued strong support for a range of programs designed squarely to change the way Washington does business. Through the ...

Game on. Five months after the president's bipartisan deficit commission laid down its vision for how to address our federal fiscal straits, and nearly three months after President Obama presented his ...

President Obama presented a $3.73 trillion budget plan on Monday that aims to cut the deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, but Republicans said it doesn't go far enough. During a ...

Jeffrey Braithwaite receives funding for his research, principally from the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council. He is affiliated with University of New ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...