Does the Electoral College encourage candidates to campaign in rural areas, as its supporters claim? And do electors actually filter the ‘passions’ of voters, as the founders wanted them to?
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JFK pushed consumer rights to the top of the national agenda in 1962, leading to a raft of new laws offering new protections. But without enforcement, such rights are meaningless.
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims could sue a gun maker, a decision that could open the floodgates to more lawsuits.
Psychological phenomena like confirmation bias and the Dunning-Kruger effect make it easy for people to fall for deliberate or inadvertent lies in the news.
While Trump may be an extreme example, much of the conduct Cohen highlighted reflects attitudes and actions commonplace among public companies.
Recent pipeline explosions have brought the problem of Mexico’s black market for oil into tragic relief.
Democrats such as Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Markey are proposing an ambitious decarbonization plan that critics are calling unaffordable. A green economist explains how the US could pay for it.
Hijab-wearing culture in Indonesia has changed over time. The hijab is becoming much more popular, so why does it remain a source of controversy?
With ExxonMobil set to begin oil production in Guyana next year, this tiny South American country will soon become unthinkably rich. But neighboring Venezuela shows how an oil boom can go bust.
Being the media-savvy women that they were, suffragists realized they needed to come up with a meaningful, recognizable brand.
Although US debt may be at eye-popping levels, an economist explains why it shouldn’t keep you up at night.
Parliaments might argue more but they make democracy more stable and produce stronger economies.
American politics has gotten more partisan in the last 50 years. One of the reasons: the closing of local newspapers.
Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder happened at a consulate, a space not subject to the laws of the host country, Turkey. That means the alleged murderers did not fear interference by local authorities.
The Fed abruptly ended two years of aggressive interest rate hikes, signaling the longest economic expansion on record may be coming to a close.
As Trump prepares to deliver his delayed State of the Union address, here’s what four economists had to say about the state of the union.
The government collects reams of economic data that are vital to the functioning of companies, policymakers and even families.
The high-profile absence of several world leaders including Trump from the World Economic Forum has led some to suggest its influence is in decline. A philosopher who has seen Davos up close disagrees.
The president should use his penchant for shaking up the status quo to tackle the genuine crisis in health care.
Theoretically, nothing is “authentic” in hip hop culture.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University
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Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
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Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Nottingham
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer of international trade law, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Senior Professorial Lecturer, Co-Director Transatlantic Policy Center, American University School of International Service
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Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII)
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
