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, ...

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).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new endowment tax will subject the country's wealthiest institutions to hundreds of millions of dollars in tax liability.

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 inconsistency marking the Trump administration's first six months in office highlights the absence of a coherent US grand strategy, a deficiency likely to have crippling long-term consequences.

As we look at the Army’s transformation in 2025 under united leadership, it’s impossible to miss the echoes of the painful yet ultimately fruitful decade that followed the Vietnam war. Then ...