Challenges facing the next president
Market-based policies for air-pollution control…
It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to…
The United States is in urgent need of a comprehensive, rational, and—above all—honest policy to guide its energy future, a policy…
On January 20, you will inherit a legacy of trouble: Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, North Korea for starters. Failure to manage any one of…
Who is Mr. Putin?” The question reverberated in world capitals when Boris Yeltsin called a press conference on August 9, 1999, to…
The compensation of top American corporate executives has soared during the past 15 years. Measured in 2005 dollars, the average annual…
Americans annual consumption of gasoline (for both private and commercial transportation) amounts to more than 140 billion gallonsclose to 500…
Editor’s note: Introducing himself as a Princeton professor wearing a Yale gown as he prepared to address a Harvard audience, historian…
This essay is adapted from the 2005-2006 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture, delivered on April 24 under the sponsorship of the Radcliffe…
During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure…
Pellegrino University professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson, a scholarly giant of biodiversity and sociobiology, remains at heart a teacher. His…
I have chosen to discuss Iraq in part because there are over 150,000 Americans serving there in the military, as well as U.S. civilians:…
Things have never been as good for India as they appear to be today. Its economy has grown by nearly 6 percent annually for the past…
One million children pushed into poverty: That was the prediction of a widely cited study on the likely effect of welfare reform, released just…
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