WSJ's David Wessel explains the likelihood that a new deficit-reduction plan from Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles will lead to a budget compromise in Washington. Photo: Getty Images. Man Deported ...

The colorful former Wyoming Sen. Alan K. Simpson died Friday at age 93 while recovering from a broken hip he sustained in ...

CODY — “It felt like meeting my crazy uncle in the attic,” Erskine Bowles said, recalling his first meeting with former Sen. Alan K. Simpson in the 1990s. “But I came to remember the pure ...

I just saw your piece fact checking Senator Kerry’s statement on Meet the Press that the Bowles-Simpson plan would raise $2 trillion in revenues and wanted to contact you with a further ...

Bowles isn’t the first Corsair women’s basketball player to head from CR to Simpson, with her Corsairs’ head coach, Bree Northern, making the same jump in 2020.

Alan Simpson, right, and former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, left, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. | J. Scott Applewhite ...

National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform co-chairs Alan Simpson, right, and Erskine Bowles testify on Capitol Hill in 2011. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) ...