Detroit's Decline and the Folly of Light Rail. Edward Glaeser, March 25, 2011, Opinion. "The Census just reported that Detroit's…
We have known since December that Massachusetts’ population grew by an anemic 3.1 percent between 2000 and 2010, but this week the census…
In 2006, a National Academy of Sciences committee recommended two simple steps to prevent spent nuclear fuel from catching fire: putting…
Whatever you think of President Obama’s sudden decision last week to overturn his initial reluctance to intervene in Libya, the coalition…
In his book The Idea of Justice, Amartya Sen argues that we do not need to know what perfect justice is to know that a particular state of…
We examine several hypotheses regarding the determinants and implications of political protest,
motivated by the wave of popular uprisings…
Across the country, the interests of organized labor, elected officials and taxpayers are colliding over wages, work rules and the…
Many senior government leaders who have attempted to achieve ambitious goals have been quite
successful, though others (sometimes very…
Artificial States. Alberto Alesina, March 15, 2011, Paper. "We define artificial states as those in which political borders do not…
Nations around the world are considering strategies to mitigate the severe impacts of climate change predicted to occur in the twenty-first…