Is the tax code sufficiently progressive? The answer depends on not only the values of the person answering the question but also the tricky evidence, explain Alex Brill and Scott Ganz.
Alan Viard and Sita Slavov focus on ways to increase the progressivity of Social Security and Medicare benefits. They detail the flaws of income-based means testing and argue that targeting benefits based on lifetime labor earnings is the superior strategy to increase progressivity.
Sally Satel testified that we can protect teens through more aggressive barriers to accessing vaping products. At the same time, we can save smokers’ lives and combat the leading cause of preventable death in the world by preserving adult smokers’ access to a valuable smoking-cessation method.
In refusing to cooperate with the House's impeachment inquiry, the White House has ironically provided the best grounds for impeachment yet: an effort to undo the constitutional check of legislative oversight, signed off by the president himself, writes Gregory Weiner.
Benedic Ippolito's testimony focuses on two elements of recent proposals: redesigning the Medicare prescription drug benefit, known as Medicare Part D, and allowing for the secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate drug prices.
While there is a strong case to be made for a Europe that works together to defend democratic values at home and abroad, as well as a transatlantic alliance that is willing to work in proactive partnership to tackle big global challenges — from climate change to terrorism to nuclear proliferation — that goal is still a long way off, explain Dalibor Rohac, Matt Browne, and Max Bergmann.
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