The American party system is in an unusual extended deadlock, with two minority parties. Both parties have plausible avenues to build a lasting majority coalition, but to do so, they must understand ...

You might be better off despite the trade-offs, but choices have consequences or costs. Americans would be better served if our politicians, policymakers, and policy commentators honestly highlighted ...

Abstract The Trump–Pence and Biden–Harris administrations enthusiastically embraced protectionism. Each administration explicitly argued for a break from the bipartisan consensus… ...

The problems pornography presents have clearly become so much more complicated and even more difficult to address.

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This paper empirically estimates sustainable sovereign debt limits for 27 OECD countries, updating the model in Ghosh et al. (2013). We assess fiscal reaction functions, confirming the fiscal ...

Tech sector layoffs have grabbed a lot of headlines over the past two years since the Federal Reserve ended its zero interest rate policy that enabled vast investment in research, development, and ...

The 1960 Mechanization and Modernization Agreement was a significant labor contract between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association. This agreement was ...

Social Security’s Old Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund is projected to be exhausted in 2033. Without intervening legislative action, current law dictates that benefits at that time would ...

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General (Ret.) Frank McKenzie was the Commander of United States Central Command when the U.S. took out Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. What can we learn ...