To call the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA) a comprehensive bill would be a gross understatement. The 2010 health reform law exceeds 900 pages in PDF form, and affects nearly every facet of the American healthcare system, ranging from Medicare...

After 50 years of trying to patch over the health outcomes gap between affluent and blue-collar Americans, Medicaid received a considerable boost in 2010, when the passage of the Affordable Care Act expanded eligibility for the state-level insurance program. Despite a...

President Donald Trump’s choice of retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) may very well be the most confusing Cabinet appointment of recent years. His predecessors both had extensive backgrounds in housing poli...

The duel between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was the centerpiece of the 2016 electoral cycle, seizing popular attention. But as usual, some of the most tangible impacts from Nov. 8 will come from measures further down the ballot. In Maine, Massachusetts and Califo...

The United Kingdom is suffering a Brexit hangover. Within weeks of the vote to leave the European Union, the British economy experienced its sharpest decline since the financial crisis ended in 2009. Recession had been predicted by many economists. Normally, such a pre...

Nearly invisible on the national political stage, housing affordability and access have become critical issues for metropolitan areas across the country since the end of the Great Recession. Despite a much-touted recovery, economic growth since June 2009 has been incre...

The Zika virus seized international headlines early this year. For the first time, Brazilian

health officials connected the tropical mosquito-borne disease to an uptick in cases of

microcephaly (an abnormally small head) and other developmental disorders. Concern over th...