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Three paths toward improving our healthcare system

We are living through the most significant healthcare crisis to face a rich world nation in the post-World War II era. Americans are spending more than four times as much per capita on healthcare today than we were in 1980. Healthcare spending in the United States has increased from $74.1 ...

War on ‘credit card fees’ will hurt America’s poor

When so many working families are struggling, the Biden administration is proposing rules that would squeeze low-income Americans out of the credit market. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has announced a rule limiting the amount a credit card company can charge for late or delinquent ...

Fight hunger and disease now, climate change later

In 2000, something remarkable happened: the world came together and committed to a short list of ambitious targets that became known as the Millennium Development Goals. The objectives — to reduce poverty, fight disease, keep kids in school and so on — essentially boiled down to eight ...

On Taiwan, let’s unfix what wasn’t broke

America’s detente relationship with China regarding Taiwan has had enormous benefits for all three countries for the last five decades, but an unsettling slide toward political posturing and rhetoric puts the future of that relationship at risk. The United States must affirm its commitment ...