Mail volumes are falling and the U.S. Postal Service is losing billions of dollars a year while accumulating large liabilities.

America’s surface transportation infrastructure needs significant improvements and rehabilitation, yet Congress is uncertain about how to do this.

If anyone in Congress is focused on the deficit problem and pushing spending cuts it should be the Freedom Caucus.

One of the problems with federal hand-out programs is that individuals take advantage of them and scam artists outright loot them.

The Washington Post magazine has a lengthy piece on American Indian policy, focusing on the challenges faced by people living on reservations.

Transit ridership is plummeting almost everywhere, yet officials in many cities are still devising hugely expensive plans for transit projects.

The federal government spends $750 billion a year on 1,386 different subsidy programs for state and local governments. The number of aid programs has tripled since the 1980s.

Despite rising federal deficits, Congress is set to pass another budget-busting spending bill. This time it is a $19 billion package of disaster-related subsidies.

Nationwide transit ridership in the first quarter of 2019 was 2.6 percent below the same quarter in 2018, according to data released by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) last week.

The Economic Development Administration (EDA) is a small agency within the Department of Commerce. Its purpose is to give money to governments and businesses to fund local activities, such as $2 million to “repurpose the West Frankfort Mall” in Illinois and $150,000 for the Brick River Cider company in St. Louis to make “authentic hard cider.”