In 2014, health care spending in the United States rose 5.3 percent to $3 trillion, or $9,523 per person. Controlling health care costs is important to the long-term health of the United States’ economy and its people.

Stephen Macekura argues that the next president should make addressing climate change a priority

Beyond addressing specific threats to national security and the promotion of broad national interests, American foreign policy defines for the world, and its own citizens, the values the United States hopes to embody as a nation.

Woodrow Wilson is a hot topic of debate for his support of segregation in the federal government during his first year

The State Health Care Cost Containment Commission examined how the nation’s governors and other state leaders can transform the current health-care system into one that is more integrated, coordinated, patient-centered and cost-effective.

Among the most contentious of today’s policymaking challenges is the issue of immigration. Comprehensive reform has languished for more than a decade, locked in political stalemate, despite near consensus that the nation’s immigration system is fundamentally broken.