Prices for goods, services, and labor have all risen significantly over the last year, but health care service costs are only modestly above pre-pandemic levels and have remained steady in recent months. Matthew Fiedler examines why this has been the case and discusses the implications for overall U.S. inflation, Medicare prices, and beyond.
Ginni Thomas’s involvement with Trump aides around the 2020 election has produced demands for Justice Thomas’s recusal in upcoming Supreme Court cases and rekindled calls for applying tougher ethics codes to the high court. However, these arguments often reflect shaky understandings of the rules for judicial misconduct, Russell Wheeler notes.
Though wildlife trafficking between Mexico and China receives little international attention, it is growing and compounding the harms to Mexican biodiversity posed by preexisting poaching for other markets. In her new report, Vanda Felbab-Brown explains China’s role in this trade and outlines what can be done to protect the vulnerable species affected.
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