By Jay Richards
Anyone who has studied the history of science knows that scientists are not immune to the non-rational dynamics of the herd.
The U.S.-India trade relationship requires more attention, from both sides.
Perhaps unbeknownst even to the most avid follower of U.S.-India relations, the seventh annual U.S.-India High Technology Cooperation Group (HTCG) meetings will be held in Washington this Monday and ...
How will the Obama administration respond to a formal complaint in the wake of serious black-on-Asian violence at South ...
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has just announced a new push to enforce civil rights laws to combat discrimination in our schools. In the last decade, he said, his department’s Office for ...
Hundreds of voting districts throughout the country have an unfair balance between citizen and non-citizen populations. ...
In the recently decided Benavidez v. City of Irving et al., the plaintiff challenged the at-large system of electing city council members in Irving, Texas, charging that it was racially ...
Too many of those currently ‘analyzing’ the Tea Party movement seem to have no genuine interest in grappling with its ...
When reading articles that aim at understanding the Tea Party movement, I am reminded of the ancient fable of the elephant and the blind men. Unable to see the whole elephant at a glance, each of the ...
The savers hit by Obama’s proposed healthcare tax provide the largest volume of funds to finance investment in our ...
President Obama has announced that he will push forward with his healthcare plan. Commendably, the president has pledged to avoid adding to the deficit, promising that tax increases and spending cuts ...
Setting a national goal of having all students proficient by 2014 while letting states create their own tests and set ...
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) set a national goal that all children be proficient in reading and math by 2014. The law left both the design of the tests and the setting of proficiency ...
President Obama rejects American exceptionalism in a manner never before seen in an American commander in chief.
There are plenty of legitimate criticisms of American foreign policy in the post-9/11 era. The failures of the Bush administration’s democracy agenda are manifest, and the contribution of hubris ...
While a desire to strengthen the economy and to engage with other major nations of the world may dictate a more open ...
This week, the United States Trade Representative’s office (USTR) released its 2010 Trade Policy Agenda. I would not recommend that you read it; that’s the sort of thing that should be ...
President Obama’s freeze of the non-defense, non-homeland security side of the budget will do nothing to get us on the ...
When the federal government spends more than it collects in revenue, it runs a deficit. To fill the gap, the Treasury Department must borrow. As our debt grows, the interest payment on that debt is ...
Any effective climate strategy will have to rely upon a combination of emissions reductions, adaptation, and, if ...
When Nobel Prize laureate and atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen published an article in 2006 calling for research on geoengineering, the response from many quarters was ferocious. Why such an indignant ...