Tag: Trump administration
What Trump’s every-country-for-itself rhetoric gets wrong about Davos
Stephen D. Smith, University of Southern California
There is a disarming and almost touchingly naive belief among the presenters and the government delegations in the...
There are better ways to foster solar innovation and save jobs...
Edward Barbier, Colorado State University and Terry Iverson, Colorado State University
President Donald Trump’s decision to impose punitive duties on imported solar panels and related...
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...
Trump’s offshore oil drilling plans ignore the lessons of BP Deepwater...
Donald Boesch, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
The Trump Administration is proposing to ease regulations that were adopted to make offshore oil and...
For richer or poorer: 4 economists ponder what 2018 has in...
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced; Christos Makridis, Stanford University; Patricia Smith, University of Michigan, and William Hauk, University of South Carolina
Editor’s note: We...
Why Trump’s plan to forbid spouses of H-1B visa holders to...
Amy Bhatt, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
On Dec. 14, the Trump administration announced a regulatory change that would strip spouses of high-skilled foreign workers...
Why justice is more important than the rule of law
Klaus Mladek, Dartmouth College
The 2017 Stress in America survey has confirmed it: Americans are officially freaking out.
The survey, conducted by the Harris Poll, reports...
GOP tax plan doubles down on policies that are crushing the...
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University
The U.S. middle class has always had a special mystique.
It is the heart of the American dream. A decent income...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
