President Obama announced recently with much fanfare that the number of U.S. troops in Iraq will be down to 50,000 by the end of August.…
Americans have been rightly frustrated by the slow, clumsy response to the Gulf oil spill by both BP and the government. But there is…
We study the problem of short term wind speed prediction, which is a critical factor for effective wind power generation. This is a…
Entrepreneurship predicts urban success, but can City Hall create a district that attracts more entrepreneurs to Boston? Unfortunately, the…
The United States is locked in debate over immigration.
If the U.S. turned inward and seriously curtailed immigration, there would be…
On a recent Saturday morning, several hundred pro-democracy activists congregated in a Moscow square to protest government restrictions on…
This past week the NAACP, the National Urban League and other civil-rights groups collectively condemned charter schools. Claiming to speak…
Against the backdrop of new sanctions
on Iran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upbeat Oval
Office visit in July, neither…
Research on earnings and health frequently relies on
self-reported earnings (SRE) for a single year, despite repeated
criticism of this…