This has nothing to do with ideology. It is equally true if your politics are from the right, left, or middle. Paul Ryan's nomination by...

In an recent article in the NY Review of Books , Paul Krugman and Robin Wells review three recent books that attempt to diagnose just how Am...

There's a lot of discussion of China's rise and it's implications for the U.S. Michael Beckley published an article in Inte...

Matt Yglesias writes:  Historically, the United States has been dominated by an ideology of non-partisanship driven by precisely the susp...

John Sides Joshua Tucker has a post on whether political science literature would/could predict that the Republicans would intentionally s...

It was 7am this morning and I still hadn't been able to fall asleep. I turned on the tv and flipped through the cable news channels to ...

Jeffrey Frankel says that we can learn from policy experiments in smaller countries: Two decades ago, many people thought that the lesson o...

It looks like my post early this morning about arms sales and economic-political decision making had some pretty fantastic timing. Al-Jazeer...

A report regarded as the most detailed evaluation of unclassified global arms transactions data released over the weekend by the Congressio...

Kevin Drum , summarizing research by Larry Bartels: Using data from voting records in the early 90s, it shows that the responsiveness of sen...

The NYTimes is reporting that American geologists have found massive untapped mineral deposits, estimated at upwards of $1 trillion, throug...

As I'm sure you all have heard, a 23 year-old Nigerian man (who studied mechanical engineering at University College London and whose fa...

The NY Times ran a series of articles on how stimulus funds have been spent in the U.S. , E.U. , India , and China . Let's have a look: ...

Spencer Ackerman sits down with Anne-Marie Slaughter to discuss her efforts (under Sec. Clinton) to reform the State Department, and take s...

Via LGM , when a £billion might not be a £billion .

Today, over 500,000 people have gathered in Havana's Revolutionary Plaza for a massive concert featuring Colombian star Juanes and an ar...

President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom , the highest civilian award in the U.S., today to 16 extraordinary human beings. ...

Many know of my general disdain for staff editorials published in American newspapers (mostly because the majority of them are useless and p...

It is expected that when the April international unemployment numbers are released, the United States will have a higher jobless rate than ...

Cap and trade has become the "hot" environmental policy of choice as of late. Both those on the right and those on the left increa...