As governments, firms, and universities advance ambitious greenhouse gas emission goals, the demand for emission offsets – projects that…
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act authorized and appropriated…
There have been important methodological changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) over time. These distort comparisons of inflation from…
We study how the recent run-up in housing and rental prices affects the outlook for inflation in the USA. Housing held down the overall…
The last fifteen years have witnessed a "democratic recession." Democracies previously thought to be well-established--Hungary, Poland,…
Harvard Kennedy School researchers studying U.S.-China rivalry find that while the United States has disparaged diplomacy since the Cold…
Why have some nonviolent revolutions succeeded even with modest participation numbers, while others have failed despite massive…
When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived on the scene, the near-universal imposition of lockdowns and public health restrictions prompted many…
The Federal Reserve seeks to cool an overheated US labor market to ease wage hikes and reduce job vacancies, without a painful spike in…
Does Alexis de Tocqueville—the author of the nineteenth-century classic Democracy in America—still matter? Why should any of us today pay…