So the Iran deal is done, and now we can move to debate it. It is very important to note that but for the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, President Obama could have lifted U.S. sanctions today under waivers and related provisions that Congress in the past gave him.
The number-one policy most Americans think of in response to illegal immigration is securing the border. It has become a reflexive rallying cry that border security has to come first, before any other policy, to deal with the estimated twelve million immigrants who live in the country.
Mariana Garcia Schmidt and Mike Woodford are lighting up the internet with a presentation on neo-Fisherian economics -- the proposition that, when we are satiated in money as at the zero bound or with interest on reserves, raising interest rates raises inflation.
In the wake of the recent murders in a South Carolina church, the killer's hope of igniting a race war produced the opposite effect. Blacks and whites in South Carolina came together to condemn his act and the race hate behind it.
I read this morning's news of a deal -- we'll see how long it lasts -- with interest. Here's a video exchange with Rick Santelli on the subject on CNBC (I can't seem to get the embed to work, so you have to click the link.) My main thought: what about the banks?
Biography is no substitute for history, much less for theory and history of thought, and journalism is, at best, only a provisional substitute for biography.
The US immigration debate often feels like the movie Groundhog Day because the same arguments and legislative proposals are replayed in an endless loop. Yet even though the national conversation about immigration policy remains almost unchanged during the past twenty-five years, the immigration enforcement system has been transformed.
New finding aids to fifteen collections from the US and Canada are now available through the Online Archive of California. Highlights include an FBI agent's research on "subversives" in the US during the Cold War, memorabilia from Herbert Hoover's presidential campaigns, and poetry by a Canadian satirist.
Since the late 1980s, new law after regulation after court ruling after endangered species designation has cut into the amount of water that farmers in California’s Central Valley are allowed to take out of its rivers and aqueducts
The remarkable progress made by India and the US in their bilateral relationship, in a decade after the landmark civil-nuclear deal, has opened up the vistas of realising the true potential of this defining strategic partnership of 21st century, top diplomats, experts and academicians from the two countries have said.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's campaign launch Monday means 15 GOP candidates now are seeking the White House with at least two more on the way, leaving California Republicans with an embarrassment of riches -- or maybe just embarrassment, in some cases.
mentioning Kevin Warshvia London School of Economics and Political Science
Monday, July 13, 2015
Why has the U.S. economy been so sluggish to return to growth in the aftermath of the Great Recession of the late 2000s? In new research, Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari find that the current level of household demand is more than 17 percent lower than its pre-recession trend, preventing a stronger recovery.
