Can We Test Geoengineering?
Solar radiation management (SRM), a form of geoengineering, might be used to offset some fraction of the anthropogenic radiative forcing of climate as a means to reduce climate change, but the risks a
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Is America Becoming a House Divided Against Itself?
When trouble strikes in our personal lives and we are searching for a source, it usually makes sense to take a look in a familiar place -- the mirror.
Using the Market to Address Climate Change: Insights from Theory and Experience
Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity, including individual consumption, business investment, and government spending.
Artful Dodging in the Courtroom
While being deposed about his alleged steroid use, former baseball MVP Barry Bonds was asked directly if he had ever had a syringe injected into him by his former trainer.
Make Drivers Pay for Driving
I strongly doubt that President Obama has a secret agenda to increase American oil consumption, but anyone who looks at his highway-heavy recovery spending plans might think he did.
Massachusetts' Health Care Reform and Emergency Department Utilization
Does an expansion of health insurance increase or decrease use of the emergency department (ED)? Both predictions can be justified logically.
Real-Time Economic Analysis and Policy Development During the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill posed near-term economic risks to the Gulf of Mexico region and raised questions about appropriate policies to mitigate catastrophic oil spill risks.
The World Must Insist that Europe Act
In his celebrated essay “The Quagmire Myth and the Stalemate Machine”, published in 1972, Daniel Ellsberg drew out the lesson regarding the Vietnam war that came out of the 8,000 pages of the Pentagon
America's Costly War Machine
Ten years into the war on terror, the U.S. has largely succeeded in its attempts to destabilize Al Qaeda and eliminate its leaders.
Preventing the Next Fukushima
While this year's disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, the worst since Chernobyl in 1986, was caused by the one-two punch of a huge earthquake followed by an immense tsunami—a disaster unlikel
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