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What Is the Most Significant Gap in the Social Safety Net for American Families?

By Cathy Hooker, Amanda Renteria, Lindsay Ryan, Gopi Shah Goda, Claudet Miranda-Zambrano, Bruce D. Meyer, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Emily Gee and Greg Acs

What Washington Gets Wrong About Religion, According to 14 Religious Leaders and Experts
What will be the main long-term impact of the Trump-Xi summit? Predictions from 11 foreign policy experts.
16 Washington Post veterans on what they would change about D.C. journalism.
Ten retiring senators and representatives: Here’s what would surprise Americans about Congress.
Where should Washington look for moral authority in 2026?
Eight bipartisan ideas that Congress could act on this session
What Washington doesn’t get about young Americans — according to 22 college students and recent grads.
What will Iran look like in one year? Eight guesses from foreign policy experts.
Four changes in the day-to-day work of Congress that could meaningfully improve governance.
Are the Iran strikes a good idea?
Describe Trump’s State of the Union speech in one word
How should President Trump open his State of the Union? Nine (realistic and not-so-realistic) ideas.
What is the Republicans’ single biggest weakness heading into the midterms, and how can it be overcome?
What is the Democrats’ single biggest weakness heading into the midterms, and how can it be overcome?
What do the events of this year’s World Economic Forum signal about the future of the global order?
Which issue, trend or crisis will dominate global economic news in the year ahead?
Name an under-the-radar idea that could pass Congress this year and have a big impact on the country.
Will history vindicate or condemn the capture of Maduro?
Is AI good for democracy?
What is one Trump action that has received little to no attention yet will have long-term consequences?
Name a Supreme Court decision in the current term that will prove consequential.
Name and describe one state or local policy that should be tried across the country.
Name one philanthropic area that should get more attention and funding. Name one that should get less.
What will the situation in Russia and Ukraine look like five years from now?
If you could change one thing about how American health care is structured, what would it be?
What is the single thing that has surprised you most about the second Trump administration?
What issue poses the biggest long-term threat to the unity of Trump’s MAGA movement?
What is the biggest fix the U.S. needs when it comes to housing policy?
What is the largest blind spot in current financial oversight?
What has been Trump’s biggest foreign policy success? What has been his biggest failure?