According to conventional U.S. history texts, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal ended sometime in the late 1930’s. Unfortunately, that is one more urban myth that needs to be exposed on Snopes.com. To our detriment, the New Deal is alive and well, still serving as the basic framework for U.S. domestic and economic policy.
Krugman has responded to my claims about empirical evidence, confirmation bias, and the lack of science in macro policy discussions. Here’s the argument so far.
The once-dominant U.S. medical device industry has been damaged by a devastating 2.3% excise that tax that is part of ObamaCare. It's past time that the tax was repealed.
Peter Suderman of Reason magazine has an excellent article in Politico on just how bad the Congressional Republicans have been at coming up with an alternative to ObamaCare.
California Gov. Jerry Brown announced this month that he has cut back on drinking water and bathing. Brown's personal efforts at water conversation have gotten a lot of attention in the media.
The UN Human Rights Council’s Independent Commission of Inquiry report on the 2014 Gaza war, released Monday, is a bad piece of work - bad in almost entirely predictable and boring ways, but no less bad for being bad and predictable.
A new exhibition at the American University Museum in Washington marking the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki () portrays the Japanese people incinerated by the blasts and sickened by radiation as victims.
Just last week, Chinese hackers perpetrated what many are calling a cyber-“Pearl Harbor” of breathtaking scope, covertly downloading the U.S. government's highly private personnel files on millions of its employees.
After years of facing threats far beyond its borders, NATO is reinvigorating plans to confront a much larger and more aggressive threat from its past: Moscow.
Paul Hill, founder of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, and Meria Carstarphen, superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools and a Tulane University graduate, discuss the future of urban education at the Tulane Education Research Alliance conference in New Orleans on Friday, June 19.
