Politics & Economics

We have been treated to two ugly Presidential debates and one ugly Vice-Presidential debate this election year.  However, there are three simple reforms that would substantially improve the quality of...

In 2006 the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) estimated that there were around 7,000 self-employed indigenous Australians who operate their own small business. This was around 6% of the total population of...

Many of you are eligible to vote for the first time in this election. I want to take a moment today to encourage you to vote and give you a quick, non-partisan introduction to Presidential elections. Martyrs...

Here’s how bad the violence is in Chicago right now. There have been so many murders this year that the city is driving up the national murder rate. An analysis of crime data in the nation’s 30 largest...

Riley Dunlap, Aaron McCright, and Jerrod Yarosh, “The Political Divide on Climate Change: Partisan Polarization Widens in the U.S.,” Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable...

The United States government has a long history of disrupting protest and illegally targeting leaders of social movement organizations. The monitoring of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests is the latest example...

On August 2, 2016 a report was released on the proliferation of digital misinformation and the challenges such information presents to global society and security. The report was released by the Center for...