The wisdom of employing an Iraq-like surge in Afghanistan.
Doubling the budget of the National Institutes of Health during the Clinton and Bush administrations has had the curious effect of leading to less biomedical research.
The most optimistic national estimatesshow Russia’s population falling to 136 million in 2020, down from 141 million today. Life expectancy in Russia is among the lowest in the developed world.
Fixing schools may mean sticking to the "no excuses" model: the philosophy that every child can succeed and neither family dysfunction nor poor preparation is sufficient reason for failure.
In Dnepropetrovsk, the secret rocket-making city in eastern Ukraine that, during the Soviet era, was closed to outsiders, the rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar is credited with an underground evangelicalism that took hold among the youth during the 1970s.
Researchers investigating the "broken windows theory" of crime control found that people are twice as likely to steal from a graffiti-covered mailbox as from one that's pristine.
Just as you always suspected, referees really do favor the home team.
Some critics decry political propaganizing by college professors but a study confirms that students are not being swayed.
Some political scientists have called for compulsory voting to force citizens to participate in the electoral process. It won't work.
Memphis demolished inner-city projects and transferred residents into better neighborhoods, but only succeeded in spreading crime to the new areas.