As of December 2010, 1.25 million service men and women had returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Many have been wounded or injured in…
Nuclear terrorism is a real and urgent threat. Given the potentially catastrophic consequences, even a small probability of terrorists…
Public opinion and the media form the foundation of the United States' representative democracy. They are the subject of enormous scrutiny…
Three months after the start of the extraordinarily moving Arab people’s protests that have swept through North Africa and the Middle East…
Despite bipartisan interest in advancing American energy policy, comprehensive energy and climate legislation fell short in the Senate last…
"Cut!" "Keep!" "Abolish!" "Preserve!" Such is what passes for political discourse these days. The noise and nastiness building toward the…
With a focus on two sorts of regulation—renewable electricity and clean energy standards, and automobile fuel-economy standards—we analyze…
Many small countries on the periphery have experimented with policies and institutions that could usefully be adopted by others.
Two…
We describe the pension plan features of the states and the largest cities and counties in the U.S. Unlike in the private sector, defined…
Dramatic growth in nuclear energy would be required for nuclear power to provide a significant part of the carbon-free energy the world is…