After Russian democratic leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down in Moscow last weekend, I posed this question at a Harvard Kennedy School…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
Carbon sequestration—the process of moderating global climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in long-…
The Medicare Advantage program – the private plans offered to beneficiaries as an alternative to traditional fee-for-service Medicare – has…
We provide the first experimental estimates of the long-term impacts of a voucher to attend private school by linking data from a privately…
This article analyzes the historical conditions for, and implications of, the attitudes and conduct of a number of prominent or influential…
What a difference two months make. When the Republican Party scored strong gains in last November’s US congressional elections, the…
The American judiciary has increasingly come under attack as polarized
and politicized. Using a newly collected dataset that captures the…
Missing from most accounts of the 2008 and 2012 campaigns to elect Barack Obama president is the story of how Obama for America organized 2…
When terrorists operating under the banner of the Islamic State launched their savage attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015 the world was…