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,…
Seen from Tokyo, America’s relationship with Japan faces a crisis. The immediate problem is deadlock over a plan to move an American…
Much of the recent health care reform debate has focused on achieving budget neutrality over a 10-year period, but this goal is less…
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…
The crisis of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has sparked a surge of increased civic engagement by young people in the United States, but there…
The article advances the view that social and economic choices in societies can reasonably adjust as the age structure of the population…