In an industry advisory last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced tough new conflict-of-interest rules against doctors who sit on its advisory committees, which recommend whether the FDA should allow pharmaceutical companies to market their new products...
The presentation of its archives by the defunct Communist Party U.S.A. to New York University's library reminded me of the days in the 1940s when party members were more open, especially in the trade unions -- for example, in their takeover coups in the nascent Congress of Industrial Organizations or CIO...
The federal education law called No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is due to be renewed this year, but political insiders in Washington predict that Congress will not take action until after the next Presidential election in 2008...
Since the start of talks of invading Iraq, it has been my view that it was a bad idea, in conflict with the principles of the foreign and military policy of a free society...
Why "Beyond Nuclear Weapons?" In January, historic leaders of US foreign policy, including Henry Kissinger, Max Kampelman, Thomas Graham, Jr, and George Shultz among others, gathered and agreed that we must take the plunge to "A world without nuclear weapons..."
The latest EconTalk is a conversation with Kevin Kelly, the founding editor of Wired magazine and the author, among other books, of Out of Control, a wonderful book on spontaneous order...
Like any election season, there was no shortage of public opinion polls related to the 2006 general election that swept Democrats back into power in both houses of Congress and a majority of the nation’s governors...
The same day that Al Gore lectured Congress about man-made global warming, NASA made a startling announcement: The sun is hotter and more active than thought...
When lawmakers in Arkansas increased school funding by more than $700 million over the past three years to improve student achievement, they wanted the money to be spent on instructional coaches for teachers, tutors for struggling students, and smaller class sizes in reading, math, and science...
