Soon after taking office, Franklin Roosevelt boldly proposed the Civilian Conservation Corps as a way to create jobs and hope during the…
In 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ended American isolationism and brought our country into a global war that resulted in a…
Was 9/11 a turning point in world history? It is too soon to tell. After all, the lessons of World War I looked very different in 1939 than…
Three years have passed since the financial crisis of 2008, and unemployment rates remain painfully high. As of August 2011, America…
In the National Pilot Program on Payment Bundling, a subset of Medicare providers will receive a single payment for an episode of acute…
Economic activity can damage natural systems and reduce the flow of ecosystem services. The harms can be substantial, as our case studies…
All six Republicans on the debt-reduction super committee have signed a no-new-taxes pledge, and that means the panel can only dig up extra…
The field of public opinion is one of the most diverse in political science. Over the last 60 years, scholars have drawn upon the…
Medicare is going to be cut. That is inevitable. There is no way to solve the nation’s long-term debt problem without reducing the growth…
For the past forty years, United States Presidents have repeatedly called for a reduction in the country's dependence on fossil fuels in…