As we head into the final weeks of the presidential election, the Romney campaign’s hopes remain fixed on the economy. Specifically, Romney…
The transportation of hazardous materials is vital to the U.S. economy and inherently dangerous. In the decade since the terrorist attacks…
Should voters blame President Barack Obama for America’s current economic malaise?
The Mitt Romney campaign, hard as it tries, will find…
It is the mark of science and perhaps rational thought more generally to operate with a falsifiable understanding of how the world operates…
Why do countries find it so hard to get their budget deficits under control? Systematic patterns in the errors that official budget…
Yesterday’s tragic murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other American diplomats in Libya illustrates the ever-present…
The murder of a US ambassador is a shocking event, so rare that the last time it happened the Russians were in Afghanistan. The Libyan…
Fiscal Policy after the Great Recession. Alberto Alesina, September 12, 2012, Paper. "The Great Recession has severely hit the…
The recent revolutions in Libya and Syria offer a bitter lesson: to generate outside intervention against a dictator, armed rebellion is…
There will be no politicians at the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. They are no longer invited. Organizers…