Contrary to the popular misconception, the growth rate of national health spending has been dropping for a decade.

Not many people noticed during the run up to the Iowa caucuses and last year's payroll tax fight that a far more important, and potentially game-changing, resolution passed the Senate at the end of 2011.

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The failure to correct the U.S. external deficit soon runs the very real risk of another dollar crisis with all its attendant disruptions to U.S. financial markets and the U.S. economy.

Both candidates ran against him, but on a few issues they would do well to follow President George W. Bush.

Japan must weigh the economic and security consequences of closer ties with China against the risk of declining U.S. influence in Asia.

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