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The dividing line between Republicans and Democrats is clear when it comes to tax policy. Republican presidential candidates want to extend President Bush's tax cuts, while the leading Democrats argue for letting them expire and raising the capital gains tax. A look at how the politics are shaping up and how they might shake out in today's economy.
Stephen Moore, member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board and former President of the Club for Growth
Jason Furman, director of The Hamilton Project, a Brookings Institution policy initiative aimed at promoting economic growth and opportunity; former special assistant for economic policy to President Clinton
The National Book Award winning author presents her new novel set in a tuberculosis sanitarium on the eve of World War One.
Andrea Barrett, teaches at Williams College and in the MFA Program for Writers at the Warren Wilson College, received the National Book Award for fiction for "Ship Fever," and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for "Servants of the Map."
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