Preparing for Climate Change
Global momentum is building to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So far, so good. The less happy news is that Earth's temperatures will continue to rise for decades. And evidence shows that climbing...
View ArticleImmigrants and the Right to Stay
The Obama administration promises to take on comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, setting policymakers to work on legislation that might give the approximately eleven million undocumented...
View ArticleGovernment’s Place In The Market
As New York State Attorney General from 1998 to 2006, Eliot Spitzer successfully pursued corporate crime, including stock price inflation, securities fraud, and predatory lending practices. Drawing on...
View ArticleBorder Wars
Post-9/11 security anxiety. A renewed war on drugs. Inaction on immigration. Economic collapse. All of it makes for a combustible brew, and the fire is burning hottest on the Southwestern border.
View ArticleBlaming Islam
In the United States and in Europe, politicians, activists, and even some scholars argue that Islam is incompatible with Western values and that we put ourselves at risk if we believe that Muslim...
View ArticleBack To Full Employment
Full employment used to be an explicit goal of economic policy in most of the industrialized world. Some countries even achieved it. In Back to Full Employment, economist Robert Pollin argues that the...
View ArticleShopping for Good
“Buy local,” “buy green,” “buy organic,” “fair trade”—how effective has the ethical consumption movement been in changing market behavior? Can consumers create fair and sustainable supply chains by...
View ArticleOccupy the Future
The Occupy Wall Street movement has ignited new questions about the relationship between democracy and equality in the United States. Are we also entering a moment in history in which the disjuncture...
View ArticleGiving Kids a Fair Chance
In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in America today. Children born into disadvantage are,...
View ArticleA Constitution for All Time
"A highly informative and accessible look at our nation’s governing document."—Booklist
View ArticleLurching Toward Happiness in America
The promise of America has long been conceived as the promise of happiness. But in the cacophony of competing conceptions of the good, technological interventions that claim to help us achieve it, and...
View ArticleConflict in Ukraine
The 2014 conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO’s future,...
View ArticleGreening the Global Economy
In order to control climate change, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by about 40 percent by 2030. Achieving the target goals...
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