Schools Are Hardly Gun-Free Zones

December 21, 2012
Schools Are Hardly Gun-Free Zones

RON AVI ASTOR, professor of urban social development, USC's School of Social Work and Rossier School of Education.

This op-ed originally appeared at CNN on Dec. 21.

Last week's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, appears to have at least temporarily changed the debate on gun control and opened the door to new restrictions. Following up on his pledge to "use whatever power this office holds" to prevent another slaughter at a school, President Barack Obama...

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The 2,000-Year-Old Prescription to Control Health Costs

December 13, 2012
The 2,000-Year-Old Prescription to Control Health Costs

DAVID AGUS, professor of medicine and engineering, Keck School of USC.

This op-ed originally appeared in the New York Times on Dec. 11.

The inexorable rise in health care spending, as all of us know, is a problem. But what’s truly infuriating, as we watch America’s medical bill soar, is that our conversation has focused almost exclusively on how to pay for that care, not on reducing our need for it. In the endless debate about “health care reform,” few...

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A Ramp Away From the Fiscal Cliff

December 7, 2012
A Ramp Away From the Fiscal Cliff

EDWARD D. KLEINBARD, professor of law, USC's Gould School of Law.

This op-ed originally appeared at CNN on Nov. 30.

America's fiscal policy faces an apparent Hobson's choice. On the one hand, we need to tame federal deficit spending by imposing new across-the-board spending cuts and higher taxes. We are told that if we do not act on this soon, the debt markets will choke on the overabundance of government debt issued to fund those deficits, causing interest rates to...

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How Lawyers Undermine Access to Justice

November 26, 2012
How Lawyers Undermine Access to Justice

GILLIAN HADFIELD, professor of law and economics, USC's Gould School of Law.

This op-ed originally appeared at CNN on Nov. 25.

In our country, lawyers and judges regulate their own markets. The upshot is that getting legal help is enormously expensive and out of reach for the vast majority of Americans. Anyone faced with a contract dispute, family crisis, foreclosure or eviction must pay a lawyer with a JD degree to provide service one-on-one in the same way lawyers have...

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Obamacare Exchanges May Be Too Small to Succeed

November 26, 2012
Obamacare Exchanges May Be Too Small to Succeed

DANA P. GOLDMAN, director of USC's Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, MICHAEL CHERNEW and ANUPAN JENA, professor of health policy at Harvard University.

This op-ed originally appeared in the New York Times on Nov. 23.

With the re-election of President Obama, the Affordable Care Act is back on track for being carried out in 2014. Central to its success will be the creation of health-insurance exchanges in each state. Beneficiaries will be able to go...

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