Since President Donald Trump declared his “liberation Day” on April 2, touching off a bout of severe financial market turmoil, the financial media has resounded with reports that the end of the U.S.

Twenty-five years ago this month, Dan Sarewitz and I published a widely read and discussed article in The Atlantic Monthly titled, Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock (unpaywalled version here).

Higher tariffs would adversely affect agricultural imports, which would harm US consumers, but the trade actions could also provoke counter-retaliatory actions by affected exporters. Indeed, Canada, ...

Some conservative groups are asking the Trump administration to index capital gains for inflation by executive order. Tax reform should improve the tax treatment of saving and investment, but indexing ...

Trump's push to slash outdated nuclear-energy regulations is an overdue victory. But the president’s wrongheaded proposal to gut basic scientific research spending undermines the very engine of ...

The new endowment tax will subject the country's wealthiest institutions to hundreds of millions of dollars in tax liability.

David Gergen was one of those rare public figures whose reputation preceded him. Gergen’s legacy was not only tied to the four presidents he served but to the thousands of students he mentored, ...

This project is an independent assessment of a subset of intergovernmental organizations subject to that review—the United Nations and its affiliated organizations—based on their contribution ...

The treatment of personal information as property is not a policy recommendation but a reflection of how courts and individuals are already behaving under common law.

The U.S. debt is on an unsustainable path because entitlement spending far exceeds revenues. Policymakers must choose between cutting benefits, raising broad-based taxes, or letting future generations ...

The principle of technology-neutral regulation suggests that there should not be any AI regulation at all. Rather, the law should address wrongs as wrongs no matter what instruments or technologies ...

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