Bård Harstad was recently awarded about $15,000 for a paper suggesting that the best way to combat climate change is to pay countries not to extract fossil fuels. The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) awarded the money to the Norwegian, impressed by his alternative approach towards curbing global greenhouse gas emissions.As part of […]

One result of the Obamacare employer mandate delay is increased pressure on the exchanges: if employers drop coverage of their employees, or even simply don’t offer coverage to currently uninsured employees, more people will have to migrate to the exchanges to fulfill the individual mandate. But the delay isn’t the only unexpected new influx into […]

Postponing college to surf. That’s what Deborah Dunham intends to encourage her son to do after he graduates from high school. She writes in Forbes: When the topic of college comes up, I always tell my son, “If you’re not ready, don’t waste your time or our money.” Because the College Board places the price […]

Prescription painkiller overdoses are causing more deaths in America than heroin and cocaine combined, and the problem is getting worse. The WSJ reports that our culture’s addiction to legalized opiates is resulting in thousands of unintentional deaths and suicides per year. All the numbers from the CDC got worse, not better, over the course of […]

A new analysis by the Brookings Institute has discovered this eye-popping statistic: in the last ten years, the US health care industry has created jobs at a rate ten times faster than the entire rest of the economy.Those worried about the future of employment in America—for themselves or for the country as a whole—should look to […]

Public schools have forgotten their purpose. And John White, state superintendent of education for Louisiana, aims to remind them. In a piece penned for The Advertiser, White argues that the education system has moved away from preparing students for work. His department will release a blueprint in the fall tying education to career-readiness: An earnest […]

The IMF agreed to fork over a big pile of dough to keep Pakistan from collapse—for now. The New York Times has the story: The I.M.F. has an unhappy history with Pakistanis, some of whom are likely to see the package negatively. The last government failed to meet the terms of the previous I.M.F. package six […]

As we all watch the events in Cairo unfold today—including reports that several protesters having been shot and killed by the army, and that several top Muslim Brotherhood politicians have been ordered released—it’s worth checking in again with our colleague Adam Garfinkle for some much needed perspective: The Muslim Brotherhood is at the same time […]

In the above clip, Mark Dice* tests ordinary California beachgoers’ knowledge about the Fourth of July, asking them when the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence and which country we broke away from in the American Revolution. (One apparently popular answer to the second question was China.) A few times Dice fed the interviewees […]

Ask a green what he or she thinks about fracking, and you’re likely to get an earful of criticism about methane leaks, poisoned groundwater, and climate change disaster. But a new report from the ecologically minded Breakthrough Institute (BI) makes the case that shale gas actually has a net environmental benefit. Nevermind the boosts to our energy security, […]