Dramatic growth in nuclear energy would be required for nuclear power to provide a significant part of the carbon-free energy the world is…
They had a unique partnership, Washington, D.C.
Mayor Adrian Fenty and Public Schools Chancellor
Michelle Rhee did. Fenty placed a high…
I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks
and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years
ago, in 1978. Given the furor…
All developed countries have been struggling with a trend toward health care absorbing an ever-larger fraction of government and private…
In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also…
One approach to urban areas emphasizes the existence of certain immutable relationships, such as Zipf’s or Gibrat’s Law. An alternative…
There are many things progressives need to do in the long term to win the economic argument against conservatives. But what about the short…
In making his case this past week for the use of force in Libya, President Obama sought to assure the American people that this…
Book abstract: Written in an accessible style by highly respected scholars, the papers in this volume document and analyze particular…