America's last 10 years might be called “The Decade the Locusts Ate." A nation that started with a credible claim to lead a second American…
Terror attacks on innocent people have continued around the world since 11 September 2001, but not on the scale of the 2001 attack on the…
The US response to 9/11 has been a major contributor to America’s current economic malaise.
The most economically costly decision post 9/…
As America looks back on this 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the war in Iraq looms large — and usually not in a good way. At…
I remember the sense of shock and worry and concern among our students after the second tower was hit, and it was clear it wasn’t an…
Rick Perry of Texas is the latest in a long-line of governors who tout their states’ performance as evidence of their ability to…
Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution,
environmental regulations, and infant mortality…
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…