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Efforts to curb railroads’ monopoly power in the 19th century hold lessons for 21st-century policymakers and internet giants alike.
The long-awaited $1.5 trillion plan fails to address some major obstacles to private investment.
The $1.5 trillion plan he’s proposing would do the most for ventures that don’t really need the government’s help and ignores some major obstacles to private investment.
A new analysis shows how family background influences who grows up to invent. The key to turning things around? Expose kids to more inventors.
We asked four of our regular economics writers to examine a key theme they expect to flare up in 2018 and why.
After three years in which global carbon emissions scarcely rose, 2017 has seen them climb by 2%, as the long-anticipated peak in global emissions remains elusive.
Slaves were involved in medical experimentation in the 1700s – both as sources of knowledge and as nonconsenting participants.
There are rising concerns that rapid deforestation across the Amazon and Southeast Asia could spread to Africa. The continent hasn’t yet seen vast agricultural expansion but it could be on the way.
Mass shootings like the one at a GOP baseball game are more common in the US than in other industrialized nations. And they are getting more frequent and more deadly.
Good governance made infrastructure asset recycling a success in New South Wales. What would it take to make it work in the United States?
The health care bill recently passed by the House imposes big cuts to the underfunded Medicaid program. A new approach is needed, starting with the best ideas of both parties.
In Germany – a country where going to the theater is a deeply ingrained cultural tradition – the stage is a place to confront pressing political issues.
Double-majoring is thought to broaden your horizons and give you more career options. A new look at seven years of U.S. census data tells us that there may be a financial benefit as well.
The Orphan Drug Act was enacted 34 years ago to encourage the development of drugs for rare diseases. Drug companies were guaranteed seven years of exclusivity. Then the rush was on to run up prices.
You might think that trolling on the internet is done by a small, vocal minority of sociopaths. But what if all trolls aren’t born trolls? What if they are ordinary people like you and me?
Basic safeguards are not enough to protect against insider threats. It requires rethinking how to overcome the biases that cause us to dismiss the danger.
You might think you’re anonymous when you’re browsing the web. But a new study shows that browsing history can often be tied to your real-world identity.
When serving as Alabama’s attorney general, Sessions supported a bill that would have expanded the state’s death penalty – even past the point where it was constitutional.
Infrared cameras are the technology of choice for detecting gas leaks across the US. New research shows that these cameras can be quite inaccurate, and leaks can persist without being detected.
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Executive Director of the Immigration Policy Lab, Stanford University
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Professor of Operations, Information & Technology, Stanford University
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Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
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Fellow at CodeX - Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, Stanford University
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Mosbacher Senior Fellow of Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University
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PhD Student in Religious Studies, Stanford University
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Research Manager of the Stanford Internet Observatory, Stanford University
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, Stanford University
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Professor of Education and (by courtesy) History, Stanford University
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Barnett Family Professor, Stanford University
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Associate Professor of Learning Sciences and Technology Design in Education, Stanford University
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PhD Candidate, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University
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Acting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
