Policy and Economy

The Washington Post argues against smartphone whole drive encryption: LAW ENFORCEMENT officials deserve to be heard in their recent warnin...

From The New York Times : It turns out that for all their diversity, the strikingly successful groups in America today share three traits t...

Yale Professor Robert Shiller has won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel: Three American professors...

Electoral-Vote.com and the FiveThirtyEight blog both made highly accurate election predictions long before any votes were cast. They did i...

Many Democrats wish the U.S. was more like Western and Northern Europe. Good idea? Asia is set to have the world's wealthiest resident...

After coming across an article from Matasano Security titled, " JavaScript Cryptography Considered Harmful ," I decided to submit ...

Economist Dean Baker writes about a recent research paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland: The study goes on to note the extra...

Here is the 2012 world map from Freedom House showing the free , partly free , and non-free countries of the world. The first thing that st...

In the first quarter of 2012, the S&P/Case-Shiller national home price index fell 1.9% year-over-year: Data through March 2012, releas...

Personally, I think constructive criticism of America's human rights record should be welcomed. In the case of the Human Rights Record o...