A high-profile columnist who left The Washington Post amid the paper’s ongoing editorial upheaval is joining a growing ...

Do Bagladesh, Haiti and Peru have Medicare-style programs soon to cost $1 trillion annually? Hopefully the question quickly answers itself. Ideally it also answers Washington Post columnist Catherine ...

There’s more than one way to cook the books. You can doctor or delete data after it’s been collected. Alternatively, you can ensure the numbers are never collected in the first place. Lately, the ...

The Democratic Party is having an identity crisis; that much is obvious. The question now is whether the party will draw the wrong lessons from Trumpism and try to defeat the right by replicating its ...

Last year, Republicans learned that conspicuously ripping health insurance from millions of poor and sick people would probably cost them votes. So instead, they pursued a sneakier strategy: sabotage.

Americans don’t want politicians who tell it like it is. We want politicians who tell it like it isn’t. This election cycle, politicians’ promises have gotten bigger, bolder and less tethered to ...

Last week, for the 10-year anniversary of the Bear Stearns failure, Marketplace released an hour-long interview with the key economic policymakers involved: former Federal Reserve chair Ben S.

WASHINGTON — It used to be that budget cuts were the best way to kill a law you hated but lacked the votes to formally repeal. You know, if you can’t beat ‘em, defund ‘em. Times have changed. Now the ...

Tax inversions. Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich. Spinning off tangible assets into real estate investment trusts. Son-of-BOSS shelters. These are among the array of eye-glazingly complicated tax ...

Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post and an anchor/co-host at MSNBC. She frequently covers economics, public policy, immigration and politics, with a special emphasis on ...