By Mark Schneider
U.S. colleges will be challenged to achieve President Obama’s goal of America once again having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.
Medical breakthroughs from using existing drugs in new ways await discovery—if manufacturers have an incentive to ...
A story in the health section of this week’s New York Times was a classic example of an item whose importance can be appreciated only by someone who has followed several trends in the endlessly ...
It would be ironic if the television debates, which began by imposing an expectation—almost an obligation—of courtesy ...
For nearly two and a half years, the basic theme of the present British election has been clear: Labour deserves to lose, but the Conservatives have not yet convinced the electorate that they deserve ...
President Obama’s election raised unprecedented expectations among climate advocates—and yet their unconditional ...
Time magazine’s Joe Klein spoke for many Democrats—particularly those in the White House and the Senate, apparently—when he expressed his appreciation for the “big ...
Declining inflation, veering into outright price declines (or deflation) in some countries, continues to be a major ...
At about every opportunity, Federal Reserve officials remind the world that they have a plan to exit from their policy of unusual monetary accommodation. Those statements might merely be reassurances ...
Markets participants will understand that the Senate financial regulation bill allows for bailouts, and this will give ...
The debate over financial regulation is now focused squarely on the ability of the government to take over a failing financial institution such as a bank holding company or hedge fund—so-called ...
An expanded understanding of the ‘string of pearls’ strategy suggests a China that is more expansionist, more mercantilist, ...
The last decade was rough for the Japanese and South Koreans. North Korean missile launches, Kim Jong-Il’s nuclear program, a rapidly modernizing People’s Liberation Army, an increasingly ...
The contrast between PBS’s celebration of the huge public events of the first Earth Day in 1970 with the sleepy affair it ...
For the last 15 years, Earth Day has been the occasion for me to play the contrarian through the annual publication of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, which offered official government ...
DDT was the most important life-saving chemical of the past century and, until a better chemical comes along, it will ...
Winston Churchill was the first national leader to applaud the insecticide DDT. Sixty-six years ago, when prime minister of Britain, he praised the “excellent powder,” which was preventing ...
The claim that American women as a group face systemic wage discrimination is groundless.
Today is Equal Pay Day. Feminist groups and political leaders have set aside this day to protest the fact that women’s wages are, on average, 78 percent of men’s wages. “This date ...
How the financial regulation bill under debate in the Senate would harm informal investors.
When entrepreneurs raise money from investors, the government permits them to disclose less information to potential investors if the latter qualify as “accredited investors.” While the ...