The subsidy portion of health reform would cost around a trillion dollars over the next decade. In all the plans currently on the table, this expense would be offset with a combination of cost savings elsewhere and additional taxes, so that there ...

We are expected to hold our breath. Excitement is building. Or not, as the case may be. Will Bob Woodward's latest book bring down or bolster the administration? What are the bets?

Andrew Sullivan quotes a passage about nailing the real torturers. The problem with the pictures of torture, this writer says, is that they tend to stir up rage against the low-level guys doing the torture rather than their more guilty bosses.

Do tea baggers care that Dick Armey, self-appointed tea party leader, has never read the bill tea baggers based their opposition on?  Do they even know?Former Rep. Dick Armey testified before the House Oversight Committee Thursday morning about the...

If the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of communism in eastern Europe ushered in an era of unparalleled US dominance, Mr Obama’s first visit to China 20 years later arguably marks another once-in-a-generation revolution in global power...

Some will definitely vote for the health care reform bill; some will definitely not.  Most watchable are those whose views lie between the yes/no sides.  They are the Tweenies -- senators who'll accept it (or not) if the bill can be Tweaked to deal...

Most important, there’s the jobs situation. If job growth returns, that will be a sign that the recovery is normal and Geithner and the administration can return to a more moderate path. If employment does not rebound or the economy double dips,...

The legislation would not strip health insurance companies of their longstanding exemption from federal antitrust laws.