According to Dan Blumenthal and Frederick W. Kagan, China has three roads to victory over Taiwan, and the US must act urgently to obstruct all of them. 

Paul H. Kupiec identifies the most crucial lesson policymakers can learn from the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. “While President Biden calls for tougher bank regulation, what the country really needs is competent bank regulators, or at least regulators that are not asleep on the job,” writes Kupiec.

On March 15, Mark J. Warshawsky presented his proposal to reform eligibility rules for federal disability benefits to promote greater levels of employment for beneficiaries who want to work. After Warshawsky’s presentation, a panel of outstanding experts, including AEI’s Richard Burkhauser, debated the proposal and its potential to help federal disability recipients enter the workforce.

Benedic N. Ippolito and Loren Adler outline several procompetitive health care reforms that they say could win bipartisan support and approval in a divided Congress. Ippolito and Adler explain how the reforms they propose would increase competition in the health care market and help lower rising health care costs.

Writing in the New York Times, Yuval Levin reframes the debate over entitlement reform in terms of intergenerational commitments and obligations. “Both parties talk about Social Security and Medicare as if they are antidotes to interdependence, when in fact they are vital facilitators of it,” writes Levin. “Their benefits are an act of intergenerational gratitude and generosity.”