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	The Honorable Sheila Bair: Trump And Democrats Align More Closely On Student Debt Than They Think “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” cooed Juliet Capulet to her beloved Romeo Montague, in an oft-quoted expression of how the names of things do not always reflect what they really are. So it is with income share agreements, or ISAs — a new way to finance college, where students are only obliged to pay an affordable percentage of their income after they graduate, instead of a fixed-debt obligation. Learn more
	Scott Gottlieb, M.D.: Evaluating The Senate Finance Committee Proposal To Restructure Medicare Part D Senior citizens are facing increasing and often significant burdens from rising out-of-pocket costs on drugs that they need to improve their health while many observers worry about the long run stability of the Part D program. Learn more
	Ayan Hirsi Ali: Can Ilhan Omar Overcome Her Prejudice? I once opened a speech by confessing to a crowd of Jews that I used to hate them. It was 2006 and I was a young native of Somalia who’d been elected to the Dutch Parliament. The American Jewish Committee was giving me its Moral Courage Award. I felt honored and humbled, but a little dishonest if I didn’t own up to my anti-Semitic past. So I told them how I’d learned to blame the Jews for everything. Learn more
	Niall Ferguson: Extract From The Ascent Of Money: Populists Reaped The Rewards Of The Financial Crisis — Now They Are Set To Trigger A New Crash Ten years ago, few people would have predicted that in the summer of 2019 Donald Trump would be campaigning for a second term as president of America. The idea that Boris Johnson would succeed Theresa May as Britain’s prime minister would have seemed deranged. Learn more
	Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Life Lessons From The Native Tribe With The Healthiest Hearts In The World A few years ago, I read reports of an indigenous tribe living deep in the Amazon rainforest whose members had hardly any evidence of heart disease. In fact, the researchers concluded after a year-long study that the Tsimane, as they are called, had the healthiest hearts in the world, a title previously held by Japanese women. Learn more
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