It is possible that the retirement age for Social Security may have to be increased, but we should at least take the time to figure out why.

Social Security faces a large gap in its finances. The program has promised more than it expects to be able to pay.

The Social Security Trust Fund acts as a buffer against this gap. In the big picture - even at $2.8 trillion – this reserve provides less than a quarter of solution for every dollar of problem – that is a statistical best case.

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2016 presidential candidate and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said just one day ago that if government employees are not doing their jobs they should be fired.

I think we can all agree. But that might mean that Rubio should be among those getting canned.

This is a Reality Check you won’t get anywhere else.

The Iran P5+1 nuclear deal was once the hottest topic in Washington -- now it seems that no one cares about the fallout and aftermath.

Reported in Iranian newspapers and Russia Today, Iran is now set to join the BRICS New Development Bank, a Russian and Chinese brainchild for boosting a bloc of nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) with fresh development capital.

Besides handing out monetary incentives, voter engagement groups have tried almost every tactic to increase turnout on Election Day. In Philadelphia, that will change on November 3. The Philadelphia Citizen is offering $10,000 to one random voter who casts a ballot in the upcoming mayoral race.

A good share of politics-related content from the mainstream media (i.e., mass media outlets that convey content shaped by dominant thinking, influences, and activities) deals with predicting the future. Politicians, pundits, commentators, and experts -- both real and self-professed -- are an endless fountain of confident predictions about what political policies will make America and the American people safe, strong, and prosperous.

Congress will not vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) until 2016, but in the meantime, presidential candidates have taken positions on the massive free trade deal.

On Tuesday, former Virginia U.S. Senator Jim Webb ended his bid for the Democratic nomination for president, while also leaving the door open for an independent run. Webb, a former Republican whose views are more conservative than many Democrats, never found momentum as a Democratic presidential candidate.

We've all heard metaphors about sending people to jail. “Don't drop the soap." “Big Bubba will like your purty mouth.” Many people find these metaphors humorous. This is odd, for it seems like those people do not find sexual assault to be cruel or unusual punishment.

If you are a political guru, you might want to watch An Unreasonable Man. The film covers the rise and fall of America’s most vociferous and successful consumer advocate, Ralph Nader, during his run for president in 2000.

The crux of the film is fairly simple: Despite decades of service and activism, Nader will forever be known as the man who helped elect George W. Bush in 2000. (If you were angered by the Bush administration, just replace “known” with “universally despised” in that last sentence.)

A few years ago, the CIA declassified a WWII field manual that was used to teach insurgents (or sympathetic citizens) of Germany-held areas to conduct simple sabotage, thereby hindering the enemy's war effort.

While some of the suggestions bordered on juvenile and hokey (such as sand in government vehicle's gas tanks), others were well-thought-out and based in either technological or psychological warfare against the Nazi regime.