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While the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation safeguards an individual’s right to be digitally “forgotten”, what assurances exist regarding an individual’s—or a society’s—“right to be ...
The war with Israel has prompted generational turnover in Iranian military leadership. Israel killed dozens of senior Iranian military officers during the recent 12-day conflict, eliminating many of ...
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 ...
In recent years, the Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) and Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage (PRF) programs have experienced substantial growth in participation and costs. PRF subsidies disproportionately ...
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.
The Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) have been on a bureaucratic roller coaster for most of the first year of the second Trump administration. One moment, they’re on the chopping block; the ...
This infographic provides near-real-time insights on the housing market and how a new normal is taking hold due impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump's push to slash outdated nuclear-energy regulations is an overdue victory.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 ...
On July 4, President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which adopts numerous tax and spending changes, including a new tax on remittances. Unfortunately, the tax will ...