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Social Justice

The Vietnam Veterans Proving They Should Receive Agent Orange Benefits

Neither the Navy nor the Department of Veterans Affairs has a comprehensive list of which ships went where during the Vietnam War. As a result, veterans themselves often have to prove their ships served in areas where Agent Orange was sprayed.

Charles Ornstein & Terry Parris Jr.

News in Brief

You Say You Want a Revolution

But what you should really want is reform.

Chayenne Polimédio

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The Policy in the New Federal Budget Proposal That Would Make Saving for Retirement Automatic

Congress and the White House are once again engaged in their annual budgetary dance, but there's one part of the proposal that should make them speed things up.

Reid Cramer

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Higher Education Isn’t Going to Regulate Itself

Why is Congress leaving regulation of the higher education industry up to the higher education industry?

Alexander Holt & Amy Laitinen

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The Not-So-Revolutionary Reform at the Center of Bernie Sanders’ Revolution

His campaign finance reform proposals could do some modest good, but wouldn't bring about the revolutionary change he promises.

Seth Masket

Economics

The Ticking Tax Bomb Inside President’s Obama’s Favorite Loan Re-Payment Program

Income-based student loan re-payment probably shouldn’t include a burdensome tax. But it does.

Alex Holt

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Campaign Donations and the Sharp Split in Congress Among Republicans

An analysis of political fundraising shows conservative House Republicans have less and less in common with their party’s leaders, whose donors sometimes more closely resemble those of Democrats.

Derek Willis

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Can Congress Stop the Climate Change Deal?

Here are the Senate’s options for trying to muck up the international agreement made in Paris.

Brian Palmer

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The Elsewhere Effect

Why the grass always seems greener on the other side—until you're out of college.

Jay Livingston

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The Pentagon’s Mysterious $766 Million Task Force

Senators were already questioning why the Department of Defense was restricting a government watchdog. Now there are criminal investigations and questions about retaliation against a whistleblower.

Megan McCloskey