The Pentagon just won another small skirmish in its long war with Social Security and Medicare. President Obama and Congress are making sure the Pentagon gets what it wants next year.

Negotiators reportedly settled on cutting funding for financial regulators after giving up on further cuts in food stamps in a draft of a budget deal.

During the last three months of 2013, 15 miners died on the job. The uptick coincides with budget cuts that mean inspectors can afford to visit a workplace only every 99 years, on average.

Economists Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein have written a new book about how to cure what ails the American economy.

The trouble with making “functional” government the great aspiration of America is that a smoothly operating Congress is not necessarily moral, humane or even economically smart.

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

A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...

A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...

Universities say the automatic federal budget cuts that began last March have directly affected their research activities, leading to layoffs.

We have a rich tradition of lauding our veterans while turning our backs on their real-world problems -- and this Veteran's Day is no different.