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Mar 31, 2021

Nobel Prize winner William Nordhaus has called climate change “the ultimate challenge for economics.

Economists increasingly have been trying to understand how rising tides and global temperatures will impact resource allocation around the globe, as well as the potential policy tools that can help curb damage to...


Mar 17, 2021

After a failed revolution in 1848, hundreds of Germans were expelled from their home country and settled in the US. It was not obvious that this eclectic group would play an important role in American politics and change the course of the nation.

Their words and leadership helped President Lincoln and the North win the...


Mar 3, 2021

Democrats may control the White House and Congress, but Republicans have a clear advantage on the nation’s highest court. 

Sixteen of the last 20 appointments to the Supreme Court have been GOP nominees, including six of nine sitting justices.

Critics say that this has caused an imbalance of power that threatens the...