Left- and right-handed individuals have different brain structures, particularly in relation to language processing. Using five data sets…
A leadership transition is scheduled in two major autocracies in 2012. Neither is likely to be a surprise. Xi Jinping is set to replace Hu…
Americans have traditionally been the most enthusiastic champions of capitalism. Yet a recent American public opinion survey found that…
While the economy will be the central issue of the presidential campaign, foreign policy and national security should be a close second.…
The Failure of Judges and the Rise of Regulators. Andrei Shleifer, January 6, 2012, Book. "Government regulation is ubiquitous today…
Empirical confirmation of creative destruction from world trade data. Ricardo Hausmann, January 2014, Paper, "We show that world trade…
For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe…
Will reforms emerging from the 2008 crisis have a global impact and influence developing countries? Evidence suggests that this happened…
How accurate are people when predicting whether they will vote? These self-predictions are used by political scientists to proxy for…
A new climate change treaty must address three current gaps: the absence of emissions targets extending far into the future; the absence of…