Richard W. Johnson and Karen E. Smith are Senior Fellows at the Urban Institute.
In less than 20 years, according to the latest official projections, Social Security will no longer be able to pay full benefits to retirees and people with disabilities. Yet, presidential candidates aren’t talking much about how they would fix the problem. Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders want high-salaried workers to pay more Social […]
The Health and Human Services Secretary’s push to deregulate unapproved peptides will inevitably lead to worse health outcomes.
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More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the promise of a democratic Russia has given way to something much darker—and far more durable.
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An event celebrating the free press should not spotlight Donald Trump, the biggest threat to the free press.
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Online price swings look like fierce competition. In reality, they’re part of an invisible strategy that steers the entire market upward.
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Colleges could standardize financial aid information to make it easier to compare. But they don’t.
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Except that the Trump administration killed Direct File, the IRS’s successful free program.
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In the fight for the Democratic nomination in Maine’s likely pivotal U.S. Senate race, Democrats seem to face a choice between the reckless and the listless.
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