Soon after taking office, Franklin Roosevelt boldly proposed the Civilian Conservation Corps as a way to create jobs and hope during the…
Back in 2009, right after Barack Obama took office, I published the following prediction in the Australian journal American Age:
"To be…
Sept. 11, 2001, was the day before classes were to start at Harvard College during my first year as Harvard president. I first heard of the…
In 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ended American isolationism and brought our country into a global war that resulted in a…
Worlds Apart tells of a well-meaning foreign policy establishment often deaf to the voices of everyday people. Its focus is the Bosnian War…
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…
China urbanization is associated with both increases in per capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This article uses micro data to…
The wage impact of immigration depends crucially on the elasticity of substitution between similarly skilled immigrants and natives and the…
This paper compares Japan and the US as they provide different types of capital to the developing world, focusing especially on foreign aid…
Three years have passed since the financial crisis of 2008, and unemployment rates remain painfully high. As of August 2011, America…