The most contentious aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the individual mandate requiring that most…
How many times have we heard that the nation state is passé? That borders have disappeared, that distance is dead, that the Earth is flat,…
Recently, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services announced a scheduled cut in Medicare physician fees of 27.4% for 2012. This cut…
The government spends more than $500 billion each year on contracts — an enormous sum. So deriving savings from better contracting…
We examine the value of terroir, which refers to the special characteristics of a place that impart unique qualities to the wine produced…
A century ago, in 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its path-breaking decision in the monopolization case against the Standard Oil…
The release of the 2010 Census results in December was accompanied by all the usual hand-wringing. Massachusetts has plenty to love, so why…
The nation is plagued with one of the highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression. Not only have rates of joblessness risen…
This is the introduction and summary to the fifth phase of an ongoing project on Social Security Programs
and Retirement Around the World.…
Lavish spectacles such as the Beijing Olympics and Expo 2010 have raised China's global profile and echoed predictions of a rise to the…