Joe Albanese

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Ballooning costs for Social Security and Medicare as the U.S. population ages are expected to result in growing long-term budget deficits. (Thinkstock Image)

Faith, Freedom, and Self-Reliance

To save Medicare, build on what works

Joe Albanese · February 28, 2024 6:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Congress should keep patients in mind when reforming doctor pay

Joe Albanese · December 9, 2023 6:00 am

Beltway Confidential

When Medicare reform goes wrong

Joe Albanese · May 16, 2023 6:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Basic fixes to start saving Medicare

Joe Albanese · March 16, 2023 6:00 am

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 presidential election.

Beltway Confidential

The strangest scenes from Mark Zuckerberg’s Senate testimony on Facebook

Joe Albanese · April 16, 2018 3:59 pm

In this 2013 photo, demonstrators gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the court heard arguments on campaign finance. To advocates of campaign finance restrictions like former Sen. Russ Feingold, using money to express political views makes politics more corrupt and extreme. But more regulation is a surefire way to get less speech - just not from the rich and powerful. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

More campaign finance regulation means less political free speech

Joe Albanese · December 26, 2017 5:01 am

Restricting how campaigns are financed necessarily involves limiting the speech and political activity needed to bring about political change. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

New study fails to prove that money sways politicians, despite activists’ excitement

Joe Albanese, Brad Smith · May 23, 2017 7:04 pm

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