Economics, like all sciences, perhaps, aims at the reduction and control of risk. How's that working these days?
Strunk and White may have been influential, but one scholar thinks they based their grammar rules on "intuition and prejudice."
Clamping down on foreign adoptions seems to many African leaders like a relatively cost-free way to stand up to Uncle Sam.
To imagine Central Asia’s future, we must journey into its remarkable past.
The attacks of 9/11 seem like fanatical acts, but they were meticulously planned for more than five years, with the terrorists training on U.S. soil.
General David Petraeus's views on the importance of higher education don't seem to have penetrated the leadership of the Air Force.
Term limits in Florida and other states were supposed to boost competition, remove the incumbency advantage, and speed up turnover. So far, none of that has come to pass.