John M. Quigley, who died last week, was a pioneering economist who helped change the way we think about housing. He devised statistical…
Twenty years ago this week, a jury acquitted the Los Angeles policemen who beat motorist Rodney King, and the city exploded in a six-day…
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve
health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse…
Since the middle of the last century, the American labor movement has been in steady decline. In the early 1950s, around one-third of the…
The police profession has much to gain by recognizing its kinship with a broad range of regulatory professions. Law-enforcement agencies,…
Popular discussions often treat the great housing boom of the 1996-2006 period as if it were a national phenomenon with similar impacts…
There is growing concern over the rising share of the US economy
devoted to health care spending. Fueled in part by demographic transitions…
In poor countries, over a quarter of children under the age of five years
are malnourished. The corresponding rate in rich countries is…
With all the focus on the “war on women,” the issue of war and women isn’t getting its share of attention. On Monday, Defense Secretary…