When the coronavirus abates, policymakers will be facing a dramatically altered fiscal outlook that will demand new thinking about how to return the nation to a sustainable path of deficits and accumulated debt, writes James Capretta.
Precedent is important, in the work of a judge and of a political leader, explains Yuval Levin. But it can’t just be used as an excuse to avoid responsibility, in either case. Only when we see that can we expect to live in “good and constitutional times.”
Ryan Berg explains that the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement's implementation comes at a time of heightened uncertainty for Mexico’s economic and security prospects, and the country is the least poised of the three partner nations to take advantage of the coming upgrade in trade benefits.
A federal court recently rejected a legal challenge to a 2019 rule requiring hospitals to make public a list of their standard charges for items and services they provide, writes Thomas Miller.
Alex Brill, Scott Ganz, and Burke O'Brien estimate nationwide, regional, and county-level economic costs associated with the opioid crisis. The data show that, despite recent nationwide per capita opioid-related cost declines, the impact of the crisis continues to be felt across large swaths of the Northeast, Midwest, and South.
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