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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.

Does the notion that every American should be guaranteed a basic level of income sound utopian? In the late 1960s and early 1970s it was mainstream.

We ask every one. See the results.

Little being done to expand training options, and some abortion-rights supporters are reluctant to draw attention to the issue.

Limited debate keeps public from knowing the full scope of the potential health benefits it is being asked to give up.

Market-based prescriptions hawked; focus on quality supplanted by focus on cost.