We describe the pension plan features of the states and the largest cities and counties in the U.S. Unlike in the private sector, defined…
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…
Following an acrimonious healthcare reform debate involving charges of "death panels," in 2010, Congress explicitly forbade the use of cost…
Researchers have long known that poverty in childhood is linked with a range of negative adult socioeconomic outcomes, from lower…
The employment rate of native-born men falls at a much faster rate than that of immigrants as the two groups approach the age of retirement…
Power is a contested concept, and no one definition suits all purposes. Many analysts of international relations and foreign policy have…
Many senior government leaders who have attempted to achieve ambitious goals have been quite
successful, though others (sometimes very…
Nations around the world are considering strategies to mitigate the severe impacts of climate change predicted to occur in the twenty-first…