About 50 years ago, Art Laffer drew a convex curve on a napkin to illustrate the power of tax cuts to two senior officials from the Ford administration named Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney ...

Fifty cupcakes topped with the same logo or pinstriped No. 8s flanked the cake. And on cue, more than 200 people sang happy birthday. Costas then introduced a video package on the stadium’s scoreboard ...