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Biden’s New Student Debt Repayment Plan Could Cost $475 Billion

The report estimates that the plan will slash borrowers’ payments and cost more than President Biden’s recently rejected debt cancellation plan.

American Theater Is Collapsing. The Federal Government Must Save It.

Government bailouts saved the automotive and banking industries. American theater is in similar trouble and deserves to be saved.

Vulnerable Republicans Take a Political Risk With Abortion Vote

In uniting his party behind a defense bill loaded with social policy restrictions, Speaker Kevin McCarthy has raised questions over whether his short-term victory...

House Narrowly Passes Defense Bill, Setting Up Showdown Over Social Issues

Republicans loaded the measure with a raft of social policy provisions — including limits on abortions, gender transition procedures and diversity training — that...

House Votes to Limit Abortion Access in the Military, Bowing to the Right

G.O.P. leaders acceded to the demands of ultraconservatives to use the annual defense policy bill to lodge cultural grievances and protest continued U.S. support...

G.O.P.’s Far Right Seeks to Use Defense Bill to Defund Ukraine War Effort

The group’s proposals have no chance of passage, but they have further mired the military spending bill in a partisan fight and highlighted Republican...

America Is Living on Borrowed Money

The nation needs to chart a new course on federal debt

Can Social Security Be Fixed Forever?

Experts disagree on how far we should kick the can down the road.

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The Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration had overstepped its authority with its plan to wipe out more than $400 billion in student...

How to Change an Entrenched Police Culture

Readers discuss police reforms after the George Floyd murder. Also: The submersible; Justice Alito’s ethics; President Trump’s behavior; child care funding.

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