Terry Anderson of PERC talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about economic life for Native Americans. Anderson discusses economic life before the arrival of Europeans and how current policy affects Native Americans living on reservations today.
A robust NATO remains a vital interest of the United States. The greatest threat to its credibility comes not from Brexit, but the dangerous erosion of American power and purpose eight years of President Obama's Dangerous Doctrine has wrought. The restoration of American military power is the single most important measure the United States can take to ensure that NATO serves its essential purpose of keeping Putin out of Central Europe, keeping Germany pro-Western, and keeping the United States engaged as the default power in Europe and globally. Paradoxically, Donald Trump's Presidency may spell the revival of NATO if he follows through on his commitment to increase defense spending substantially and sheds his illusions about Putin.
In the next few years, companies that sell cars and light trucks in the United States will have to comply with increasingly stringent federal regulations on fuel economy. The government's regulations call for a required average of 54.5 miles per gallon on new cars and trucks by 2025.
After campaigning on the promise to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, last week President-elect Trump seemed to reaffirm his ambivalence about the scientific consensus on the subject when he declared that “[n]obody really knows” whether climate change is real.
The news that President-elect Donald Trump has named as his ambassador to Israel a far-right bankrupcy lawyer named named David Friedman came to us while we were in—of all places—Jerusalem, while we were attending a weeklong set of briefings by Israelis and Palestinians put on by Academic Exchange.
But the real story of Love Canal isn't the "corporate guys: bad; government guys and community activists: good" tale that many people believe. In its February 1981 issue, Reason magazine published an exhaustive, fact-filled, 13,000-word article on Love Canal written by independent investigative reporter Eric Zuesse.
Patrick Frank is a scientist at the Stanford Synchrotron radiation Lightsource (SSRL), part of the SLAC (formerly Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) national Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. The SSLR produces extremely bright x-rays as a way for researchers to study our world at the atomic and molecular level.
interview with Terry Andersonvia The John Batchelor Show
Friday, December 16, 2016
Hoover Institution fellow Terry Anderson discusses President-elect Trump's selection of Ryan Zenke, to serve as secretary of the Department of the Interior.
Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen discusses what would a Republican replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act might look like as well as whether it would maintain some of the more popular pieces of the ACA.
Chief executive contender Regina Ip said on Sunday that she is more qualified than her potential opponents, as she has a better understanding of democracy and economics.
As he does with considerable regularity, Donald Trump has elevated the eyebrows of the foreign policy establishment with his practice of undergoing intelligence briefings only once a week on average, instead of daily. Now his team says that he is getting the President's Daily Brief three times a week, along with daily briefings from his appointee for national security adviser.
As a candidate, President-elect Donald Trump said he was eager to use “crippling, crippling” counterattacks to protect the United States from foreign cyberthreats. Once elected, he began surrounding himself with security advisors who have called for ramping up cyberwarfare.
North Korean loyalists have given Kim Jong Un his time in the spotlight and are interested in keeping a regime that is one of the most repressive in the world just as it is.
Each year we publish a list of the most popular entries on the Education Next blog as determined by web traffic. This year’s runaway hit was How We Make Teaching Too Hard for Mere Mortals by Robert Pondiscio.
Although podcasts have still not quite crossed the culture chasm, the quantity and particularly the quality of content continues to increase dramatically. Healthcare entrepreneurs and others who have discovered this medium can accesses what at times feels like an embarrassment of riches – a diverse and rapidly-growing collection of excellent, enjoyable programs.
