01.01.2010 | By Leon Steinberg
President Dwight David Eisenhower built the interstate highway system more than 50 years ago. Is it time for the U.S., when it comes to the electric power grid, to be like Ike?...
11.02.2009 | By Kennedy Maize
The ongoing congressional debate over national health care policy, regardless of the outcome, has important implications for employers who today provide health benefits to their employees. Company management must pay close attention to Washington discussions of health care and to the implications for their companies of what is eventually adopted....
11.02.2009 | By Kenneth P. Green
U.S. Democrats in the White House and Congress are in an unseemly race to get something, anything, enacted into law before the December climate gab fest in Copenhagen. But it’s a fools’ game and unlikely to succeed....
11.02.2009 | By Scott Hempling
What’s to learn about regulation from Julia Child and Michael Pollan, gurus of the food world? Plenty, says Scott Hempling of the National Regulatory Research Institute....
11.02.2009 | By Robert Wilson
Don’t let your fears of inadequacy limit your ability to succeed in your life and career....
09.01.2009 | By Kennedy Maize
If what we have seen this spring and summer is global warming, my farm says “bring it on.” That sense that there is no climate crisis may present the Obama administration with a difficult choice between energy or health care legislation this fall in Congress. Energy legislation likely will fail....
09.01.2009 | By Peter C. Glover
The world’s war on carbon emissions isn’t going well. In just six months, the UN sponsored Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change will seek to launch a worldwide anti-carbon strategy with teeth. Billed by alarmists as “the last chance to save our planet,” all the signs are that Michael Jackson has a better chance of recording new material than Copenhagen has of delivering a meaningful international accord....
09.01.2009 | By Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Congress should push for nuclear energy as a climate and energy solution—now....
09.01.2009 | By Roger Sedjo
There’s been a lot of attention on “cellulosic” ethanol, but that could be a nasty dead end, according to this analysis from a well-respected Washington environmental think tank....
07.28.2009 | By Scientific Alliance
What does science teach us about how to test our ideas about the world around us? How do hypotheses differ from theory, and what does that distinction mean?...

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