The straightforward way to slow climate change is to reduce the quantity of greenhouse gases (in particular, carbon dioxide) dumped into…
The article offers the author's insights on the call tactics of U.S. President Barack Obama on deploying troops in Afghanistan. He mentions…
Thirty years ago, China had a tiny footprint on the global economy and little influence outside its borders, save for a few countries with…
State and local governments have faced big budget gaps before. Typically, things get tight for a while, then the economy perks up, tax…
Until we have more definitive information about the shooter, pointing fingers at who might bear responsibility for the Tucson, Arizona,…
Much of the recent health care reform debate has focused on achieving budget neutrality over a 10-year period, but this goal is less…
Seen from Tokyo, America’s relationship with Japan faces a crisis. The immediate problem is deadlock over a plan to move an American…
A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find…
This paper provides a model of how media environments affect political polarization. We first develop a model of how media environments,…
Presidents are said to suffer from “second-term blues’’ - a mixture of executive exhaustion, legislative frustration, and accumulated…