John Gossom

A regulated health insurance marketplace where citizens get reduced out of pocket costs thanks to a government transfer of wealth; sound familiar?

Now that the latest manufactured crisis is over, it behooves the American voter, and Republicans in particular, to sort through the consequences in the hopes of learning a thing or two.

Democrats are completely justified in taking their stance, but it is a little surprising that they have held out this long.

If it weren’t already causing so much unnecessary hardship, the government shutdown would be fun to watch.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has withdrawn himself from consideration as a replacement for outgoing Chair of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke. This opens the door for current Vice Chair, Janet Yellen, who has emerged as the favorite of the left.

Speaker of the House John Boehner has become so desperate to hold onto his position that he has caved in to the Tea Party minority of his Republican caucus and tied defunding Obamacare to avoiding a government shutdown.

There was always something wrong with the notion that the US had only two options for Syria: military action or doing nothing.

The three day weekend may function as the unofficial end of summer or as an excuse for retailers big and small to have sales spectaculars, but Labor Day was meant to be more.

We are on the brink of a military intervention in Syria, but recent polling shows that the vast majority of Americans do not want that to happen.

If a handful of extreme Republicans in Congress get their way, the government will be shut down unless Obamacare is defunded.