Concern for the health of American democracy is usually directed toward election-related questions such as campaign financing, voting procedures, participation rates, and gerrymandering. Yet it ought ...

It's common knowledge among budget experts that the budget process is "broken." Anyone who regularly reads this column knows about debt limits, government shutdowns, and out-of-control spending and ...

If the 118th Congress is remembered at all, it will likely be for its ineffectiveness and dysfunction, which persisted until the merciful end. In its last days, as it rushed for the exits, it put off, ...

Universally, the common accounting tool that governments, companies, organizations, and other institutions use for planning and controlling what they must do to satisfy the people and customers and ...

After the Office of Management and Budget ordered a sudden pause on January 27 of federal funding for a wide range of grants, loans, and other financial assistance, chaos erupted. Agencies rushed to ...

As incoming president of the Tufts Debate Society, I recently had the displeasure of going through the budgetary approval process for the 2025–26 academic year. To say that this process was predatory ...