However the current Middle East conflicts turn out, most everyone across Middle Eastern countries will still be living in a desert. Water conflicts between nations are likely to continue into the future across the...
Robert Reich complains in a Facebook post that NFL cheerleaders are paid too little: Robert Reich As if the NFL didn’t already have enough trouble with women, it turns out the most powerful sports...
The Prologue from Shane Harris’ 2010 book The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State is online at Amazon. It is worth reading to understand how federal legislation and regulations can and have fashioned policies that put...
Two aspects of booming shale oil and gas production across the U.S.. First, increased domestic production reduces the importance of oil from the Middle East. The Carter Doctrine and later U.S./Middle East policies were...
Students researching the topic on the values of freedom and equity in the realm of economics will be interested in the new Federal Reserve survey showing an increasing gap between rich and poor, or...
The Seattle Times front page article “Eat up! These bottom fish make a dramatic recovery on West Coast” (Sept. 2, 2014) offers yet another catch shares policy success story. Bottom fisheries were in trouble along the...
The eyes and minds of engineers can’t look everyone at once. Every engineering project has an opportunity cost measured by the fruits of alternative engineering challenges left unexplored. High oil prices over the last...
The eyes and minds of engineers can’t look everyone at once. Every engineering project has an opportunity cost measured by the fruits of alternative engineering challenges left unexplored. One reason Saudi Arabian policy kept...
NCFCA Lincoln-Douglas debaters prepare to argue both for and against the chosen resolution: Resolved: In the realm of economics, freedom ought to be valued above equity. On the negative side, students can emphasize that in...
In the last three years many thousand American boys have been compelled, like Gilbert, to give up their cherished hopes, and exchange school-life for narrow means and hard work. Nothing is more uncertain than...
