The hopes of millions of people in the U.S. vanished today, after confirmation of the lack of an agreement and no voting on solutions to avoid the fiscal cliff. The country is just one step from the ...

Jon Stewart revisited the fiscal cliff of doom tonight and the differing proposals being put up by both sides on how to deal with it. Whereas Stewart found the White House’s proposal a mostly balanced ...

The “fiscal cliff” is a politically manufactured crisis that is more like “steps,” Zerlina writes in a piece at Ebony, adding that Americans can rest assured that the end of the world is not upon us ...

Members of Congress are about to flee Capitol Hill, and they'll be gone until Nov. 13, one week after Election Day. As they shift to full-time campaigning, lawmakers are leaving behind many questions ...