Tag: US Budget 2018
With federal funding for science on the decline, what’s the role...
David R. Johnson, University of Nevada, Reno
What is the place of a profit motive in the production of knowledge at public universities?
The Trump administration’s...
Will a federal government shutdown damage the US economy?
Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University
The federal government shut down for the first time in a little more than four years after Republicans and Democrats...
The old, dirty, creaky US electric grid would cost $5 trillion...
The electric grid is an amazing integrated system of machines spanning an entire continent. The National Academy of Engineering has called it one of...
Trump’s planned military buildup is based on faulty claims, not good...
Daniel Wirls, University of California, Santa Cruz
President Donald Trump just released a budget plan intended to fulfill a promise to rebuild the military with...