The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of 2025
December 30, 2025
If you listed the worst years in American history, 2025 wouldn’t be near the top.
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This Week's Recommended Readings |
Using Medical Loss Ratio Data to Examine Advance Premium Tax CreditsDecember 26, 2025Elizabeth Plummer, Joshua Brooker, Mark Meiselbach | JAMA Health ForumIn 2025, more than 24 million people were enrolled in individual marketplace health plans. Read More |
Why Russia’s War With Ukraine Is Actually A Global ConflictNovember 28, 2025Ilan Berman | ForbesSometimes, it is said, in order to make a problem smaller, you need to make it bigger first. So it is with the Ukraine war, which is now fast approaching its grim fourth anniversary. Read More |
Why Trump Has an Affordability ProblemDecember 23, 2025Michael Strain | Project SyndicateAt a recent rally to tout his economic policies, US President Donald Trump suggested that voters’ growing concerns about affordability were a “hoax” created by the Democratic Party. Read More |
250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence |
Niall Ferguson: A Republic—If You Don’t Throw It AwayDecember 29, 2025Niall Ferguson | The Free PressNone of us—not even Peter Thiel—will live to be 250. But the polities we create can last a very long time, if they do not expire in their infancy. Read More |
This week's recommended podcast |
The U.S. at War | Interview: Aaron MacLeanSteve Hayes | The DispatchAaron Maclean, senior fellow at Hudson Institute and host of the School of War podcast, joins guest host Steve Hayes to discuss the anxiety-inducing analysis of the types of people who make up Trump’s foreign policy coalition. Learn More |
