Lawmakers included several important policy hints in the legislation’s key unemployment benefit provisions that suggest this may be the last COVID stimulus train leaving the station.
“Are You Kidding Me?” hosts Ian Rowe and Naomi Riley Schaefer list their five favorite podcast episodes of 2020, and Rowe also discusses his new podcast series, “The Invisible Men.”
Time will tell how the pandemic-related food program expansions will impact households. In the meantime, lawmakers should consider ways to limit the work disincentives and impending financial shocks likely to come once these provisions expire.
Amitabh Chandra discusses how America’s health care system can be improved in affordability without ignoring market forces or sacrificing medical innovation.
Amitabh Chandra discusses how America’s health care system can be improved in affordability without ignoring market forces or sacrificing medical innovation.
Thinking about the possibilities of what may come and what is needed to make them happen recalls President Reagan’s great speech to the students of Moscow State University in 1988.
Jim Tankersley explores whether Americans look back nostalgically on the economy of the 1950s and 1960s, and he discusses the lessons policymakers should take from the past 40 years to expand economic opportunity in the US.
Pope Francis has an opportunity to publicly defend and highlight endangered Christians around the world, and visiting Iraq should be the first — and not the only — step in standing up for those facing religious persecution.
The new administration should reject the assumption that the defense budget must come down because of spending to combat the pandemic. The US military cannot deter the Chinese and defend our global interests without additional support.
Jack Keane’s arguments against withdrawing troops from Afghanistan serve as a master class from a general who served on the ground and knows the enemy.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai joined “Explain to Shane” to discuss what lies ahead for the next FCC and how the agency has navigated complex issues such as 5G, spectrum allocation, and Restoring Internet Freedom.
The complex tradeoffs between trade, technology, and security will force the Biden administration to decide just how much “decoupling” with China is in the strategic and economic interest of the US.
