Ideology

The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States

By Dr Paola Giuliano and Dr Marco Tabellini Recent immigration flows to Europe and the US are usually associated with heated political backlash. Yet, little...
Misinformation And How Higher Education Can Offer a Remedy

The Other Pandemic: Misinformation And How Higher Education Can Offer a Remedy

By Micah Sadigh As we traverse, oftentimes unsuspectingly, into the darkness of an untethered technology of sharing information – seductive, magical, and in one brief...
Unity in diversity

How We Should Talk about Racial Disparities 

By Natalie Spievack Many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have emphasized the role of historical and contemporary discrimination in creating and perpetuating disparities between Black and...
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Tadatoshi Akiba: “The Goal of The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is...

A conversation with the former mayor of Hiroshima on nuclear weapons By Joseph Mazur The city of Hiroshima will forever live in the memory...
war

The Unwarranted War: The avoidable war that will penalize severely Ukraine, Russia, the US...

By Dr Dan Steinbock To Russia and Ukraine, the crisis is an existential issue. To the US and NATO, it's a regime-change game. To Europe,...
Media Coverage

Celeste Hedequist on the Mass Media’s Coverage of the 2021 Homeless Encampment Clean-Up in...

By Celeste Hedequist In October of 2021, Boston’s most vulnerable residents began receiving notices to vacate a tent encampment at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue...
Russian

Russian Sphere of Influence: What is it? What Could It Be?

By Timo Kivimäki The Russian demand of ending the expansion of NATO to its borders has raised debate in the international media and academia. These...
Defend Against False Sexual Crime Charges

How To Defend Against False Sexual Crime Charges

Over the years, the number of sex crimes in the US has soared. At the same time, there is also an uptick in the...
Reasons Why US May Want Russia to Invade Ukraine

10 Reasons Why US May Want Russia to Invade Ukraine

By Dr. Jack Rasmus In recent weeks both US and NATO have been stumbling toward confrontation with Russia over whether the Ukraine will be allowed...
Carbon Pricing

Carbon Pricing: The Best Policy that Nobody Wants

By Philip Rossetti Although carbon pricing is lauded by economists as an efficient climate policy, impediments to its adoption at the federal level in the...

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China economic growth

China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth

By Danny Leipziger China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives? China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...

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