Modernizing the US Marine Corps, India's Troubled Health Care, and More

July 1, 2021

“Time and again, young Marines have prevailed on modern battlefields. They have succeeded in spite of—not because of—the system in which they operate.” Eric Reid writes that the Marine Corps enlisted manpower management practices are unnecessarily disruptive to cohesion, wasteful of talent, inimical to the Corps’ warfighting philosophy, and incompatible with requirements of the modern battlefield.

While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) promoted efficiency on some levels, it also included many poorly designed provisions. William Gale says that Congress could raise revenues while making business taxation more efficient, more equitable, and more resistant to profit shifting by repealing or reforming many business tax provisions of the TCJA.

The intense COVID-19 outbreak in India is calling attention to the country’s health care and health infrastructure. Tarun Khanna, Nachiket Mor, and Sandhya Venkateswaran evaluate the scope of the problem and recommend pooling existing resources to ensure better health outcomes.

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