Conflicting feelings from students appeared after eight Senate Democrats broke ranks on Monday, Nov. 10, leading to the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.    The final House vote passed on Wednesday evening, officially ending the shutdown.    The...

  The United States government effectively shut down Wednesday, October 1st, after the U.S. Senate members were unable to pass funding proposals for the new fiscal year.   The deadlock is a result of harsh partisan disagreement over which program funds to cut and which...

Right now, the 2020 election and the coronavirus are prompting a lot of discussion of the cultural and economic problems in the U.S. Sadly, the institutional changes that are needed to address these issues are rarely part of the discussion. People believe things like the...

“Government is not the solution. Government is the problem.”                      This quote from President Ronald Reagan from his inaugural address might be one his most famous, which is really saying something.  The reason for its popularity isn't just...