Who decides what’s “essential” during a government shutdown?

Re-purposing America's war machine.

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Just doing what’s popular would make us healthier, wealthier, wiser and less indebted.

Few are asking the hard questions about what security we actually need—and how to keep track of the billions of dollars that the government pours into it.

How to get yourself to the edge of the fiscal abyss and not jump. 

Five key topics you won’t hear discussed in Wednesday’s debate. 

This is how not to solve an American crisis.

The nearly $1 trillion national security budget.

Occupy has resonated here, drawing hundreds of people to demonstrations. This month, Florida will be home to the first-ever Occupy convention.