Journalists are fond of saying what a "budget wonk" Ryan is, but they never talk about what he actually says about the budget.

For this particular Congress to cooperate and do something new would require a miracle on the order of loaves and fishes — perhaps Pope Francis can do something about that when he’s on the Hill next week.

A roundup of Bill's ten most popular discussions and essays this year.

A roundup of readers' favorite posts on our site this year.

We’re still living with those $80 billion across-the-board cuts from the sequester, and now they're at it again.

Thanks to an eleventh-hour settlement the US has supposedly escaped fiscal doomsday, but historian Bernard Weisberger writes that it feels more like a stay of execution than the end of a crisis.

This was the latest in a string of battles in which the American economy was ultimately the loser. Now Democrats have the upper hand -- if they don't mess it up.

An interfaith group of approximately 150 clergy leaders, locked out workers and people of faith, marched on Capitol Hill yesterday to urge Congress to end the shutdown.

Republicans claim that debt ceiling brinksmanship is a tactic employed by both parties, and historically that's true. But this time it's different. Here's why.

The Conservative Action Project has played a background role in several high-profile political debates, including this month's shutdown.