With American political polarization at historical highs, Peter Orszag argues the United States needs ways around its politicians.

The United States' fiscal future depends on whether the country can limit health-care costs.

Peter Orszag explains that, when U.S. officials adopt policies carefully designed to produce future federal deficit reductions, most of those reductions do eventually happen.

Peter Orszag discusses trends in U.S. jobs data that show large businesses are expanding their workforces at a more rapid clip than small businesses.

Peter Orszag discusses the strengthening link between high incomes and macroeconomic activity.

Peter Orszag works through various approaches U.S. policymakers could take to head off fiscal catastrophe as a storm of tax increases, spending cuts, and a debt ceiling standoff looms at the end of the year.

Peter Orszag argues that policymakers should work to encourage further strides in controlling health-care costs that are already being made outside Washington.

Peter Orszag examines recent research that suggests financial speculators can exert significant influence on commodities prices for brief periods of time.

Peter Orszag explains how monthly cycles of food-stamp benefits may contribute to disciplinary problems among students from low-income families.

Peter Orszag and Peter Diamond argue that, by forgoing revenue increases, Mitt Romney's plan for Social Security reform will have to rely on excessive benefit cuts to rein in long-term deficits.

Peter Orszag looks at a dispute over water supplies in the southeastern United States to underscore the need for water policy reforms and greater infrastructure investment.

Peter Orszag argues that U.S. business leaders who want better economic policy should work to get more moderates elected to Congress.

Peter Orszag uses counterintuitive findings about second jobs in America to underscore the importance of using real data when examining the labor market.

Peter Orszag argues that Greece should raise tobacco taxes to provide much-needed revenue and reduce its sky-high smoking rate.

Peter Orszag explores the relationship between economic downturns and improvements in life expectancy.

Peter Orszag outlines five basic principles for U.S. fiscal policy to follow: continue short-term economic support, enact automatic stabilizers, couple stimulus with delayed deficit reduction, raise additional revenue, and move forward on small-scale policy issues.

Peter Orszag wants the United States to rely more on automatic stabilizers to stem the shocks from recessions.

With recent advances in oil extraction techniques, Peter Orszag says a revolution could be on the horizon for U.S. oil production.

Peter Orszag examines the push to provide greater price transparency to health-care consumers as a strategy for reducing health-care costs.

Peter Orszag examines recent U.S. trends in retirement to better understand how the weak economy is affecting older workers.

Peter Orszag questions whether the U.S. military budget cuts outlined by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will be fully implemented.

Peter Orszag writes that investment in equipment and software is likely to remain a bright spot in the U.S. economy in 2012.