Economics Public Opinion’s Climate-Change Ping-Pong Americans seem to be of two minds on the reality of climate change, and which mind is ahead depends on when you ask. Joan Melcher
Economics AMA Lawsuits Shine Light on Health Care Spending The mainstream media dog-piled yesterday onto a story about the most recent lawsuit filed by the American Medical… David Rosenfeld
Economics Fearing Death? Think Progress! Is the human race gradually evolving into a better version of itself? Scientific and technological advances aside, the… Tom Jacobs
Economics Joules Before Swine Family pig farms used to be as much a part of the old South as homemade sausage and… Bruce Dorminey
Economics New Hope, Indeed! Last week our David Rosenfeld used the story of Horatio Bernard, an immigrant from Liberia, to outline the… Michael Todd
Education Music Education Improves Literacy of Second-Graders As arts and music programs get squeezed out of America's cash-strapped schools, evidence continues to accumulate of the wide-reaching positive effects of such training. Tom Jacobs
Economics Americans Willing to Go Green, But Dislike Mandates As scientists reiterated at a just-concluded conference in Copenhagen, climate change is a serious but solvable problem. So… Tom Jacobs
Economics More News From the Happiness Front It’s all over the news in Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo, Logan and even St. George, but Utah is… Michael Todd
Economics Old-Age Stereotypes Bad For Your Health Do you think of elderly people as weak, helpless and generally worthless? If so, you’ve greatly increased the… Tom Jacobs
Economics Better Bug for Algae Fuels Likes Salt To most, it’s mere bio-gunk; the stuff that fouls fishing lines and destroys deck shoes. For many bio-researchers… Bruce Dorminey