Some footnotes to Super Tuesday after a night that never ended:
-- Mitt Romney's narrow victory in Ohio inevitably brought back memories…
Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge? A challenging new book by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker says the answer is “…
1. A clear objective: ending the dictatorship: As the world is drawn to the meeting of the Friends of Syria in Tunisia, it remains at a…
One of the most-pervasive debates in literature on managing people is whether using “hard” or “soft” approaches produces better…
Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge? A challenging new book by the Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker says…
Looking for novel solutions to public policy problems? You could check the high-end think tanks in the U.S. or Britain, maybe research from…
It's been easy to dismiss the Occupy Wall Street-and-beyond protesters. To many, they seem disorganized, lack a clear agenda, and advance…
Compared to many of my colleagues, I am more inclined to read academic journals from cover to cover rather than just the one or two papers…
Exploiting a randomized natural experiment in India, we show that female leadership influences adolescent girls' career aspirations and…
Climate change is more uncertain, more
global, and more long-term than most issues facing humanity. This
trifecta makes a policy…