Perspective: The Sources of the SGR Hole
Recently, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services announced a scheduled cut in Medicare physician fees of 27.4% for 2012.
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Cycle of Crisis Looms Over Emerging Markets
Emerging markets have performed amazingly well over the last seven years.
Work With China, Don’t Contain It
Citing an escalating dispute over islands in the East China Sea, The Economist warned last week that “China and Japan are sliding toward war.” That assessment may be too alarmist, but the tensions hav
Health Care Spending Growth
What new theories, evidence, and policies have shaped health economics in the 21st century? Editors Mark Pauly, Thomas McGuire, and Pedro Pita Barros assemble the expertise of leading authorities in
International Climate Policy: The Durban Platform Opens a Window
In late November and early December of last year, some 195 national delegations met in Durban, South Africa, for the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP-17) of the United Nations Framework Convention
What to Do About Iran
What to do about an increasingly truculent and threatening Iran is now the most important foreign policy challenge of 2012. Republican presidential candidates are all over the strategic map.
What You (Really) Need to Know
A paradox of American higher education is this: The expectations of leading universities do much to define what secondary schools teach, and much to establish a template for what it means to be an edu
Is Romney Damaged?
The cloak of inevitability that Mitt Romney has been wearing -- on again, off again -- is suddenly and dramatically off again.
The Man Who Put the 'M' in OMB
I work for the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's Kennedy School. Roy L.
Why China Is Weak on Soft Power
China’s president, Hu Jintao, greeted 2012 with an important essay warning that China was being battered by Western culture: “We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the
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