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President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner huddled at the White House Monday as the pace quickened in negotiations to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.

The meeting, which lasted about 45 minutes, was the first face-to-face gathering between the two leaders since Mr. Boehner on Friday said he could support increased tax rates on income above $1 million a year. Mr. Boehner has

Are higher taxes inevitable? If they are, Senator Rand Paul wants no Republican fingerprints on them. Last night, he told Greta van Susteren on Fox News that House Republicans should pass a bill with their specific plan to cut spending and fix the tax code to address the fiscal-cliff issues, and dare the Senate to take it up. If Democrats refuse, then Paul wants the House to hold a vote on the

You know it’s hard out here for an optimist.

We can see that the outgoing president will continue to indulge his penchant for brinkmanship and disruption until noon on Jan. 20, and that the consequences of his behavior will create all sorts of obstacles to his successor and inflict all sorts of hardship on suffering Americans. We can see that the COVID-19 coronavirus will wreak post-

What the college-tuition scandal can teach us about public-school teacher pay.

According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) — a liberal think tank affiliated with teachers’ unions — public-school teachers earn, on average, 21.4 percent less than private-sector workers in other fields who have similar educational and demographic characteristics. According to EPI, by offering higher