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Both the economy and quality of life would get a boost if U.S. retirees spent as much as old people elsewhere. Why don’t they? The lack of an adequate safety net breeds fear.

Deep cuts in agency conference travel sought by GOP members of Congress belie their “run government like business” mantra.

If Florida is a guinea pig for climate change, there is one consequence for which the state may be especially unprepared: a rise in infectious diseases.

Court settlement directs NYPD to provide Remapping Debate with copies of protest permit records previously withheld from us, and to pay our attorney's fees. But data provided so far is incomplete and fight will continue over Department's claim of having no records for key periods (including 1967 to 1969, a time of extensive protest).

Taking a page from the recruiting playbooks of finance, consulting, and tech.

If the U.S. barred companies from deferring taxes on overseas profits, the sky, it turns out, would not fall.

Very few American-based corporations we contacted acknowledged any national obligations, suggesting a clear disjunction between how individual and corporate citizenship is perceived.

The ticket to getting widespread transit adoption in U.S. cities? Invest in convenient service upfront. The riders will follow.

How have recent developments affected the views of Senators on filibuster reform? Where do they stand now? We asked them directly, but it's really hard to get them to put their cards on the table.

For those aged 45 to 54, there is a range of policy options — beyond the fatalistic prescription to “just work longer” — that has the potential to materially enhance retirement security, if adopted quickly. For those aged 55 to 64 the outlook is bleaker, though there are steps that could be taken to ameliorate the worst of the anticipated impacts on the poorest retirees. Despite the availability of a potential solution for the 45- to 54-year-old group and of an improved safety net for the 55- to 64-year-old group, no one we spoke with suggested that the political will to effect such changes exists today.

As “market values” have replaced “social values,” they've driven a once-popular policy idea out of favor.