Cass Sunstein, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, will present an overview of federal agencies' plans, which outline initiatives aimed at eliminating tens of millions of hours in reporting burdens and billions of dollars in regulatory costs.

Cass R. Sunstein argues that the key to preventing the spread of extremist views is ensuring that like-minded groups encounter a diversity of opinions within civil society.

The debate on what to do about climate change reflects a disagreement between the positivists and the ethicists.

The precautionary principle can be paralyzing, while in contrastbalancing costs against benefitsmay offer the foundation of an approach for making difficult decisions.

The Precautionary Principle, in its strongest forms, runs into fatal conceptual difficulties; any precautions will themselves create hazards of one or another kind.

Administrative regulations and tort law both impose controls on activities that cause mortality risks, but they do so in puzzlingly different ways.

Each government agency uses a uniform figure to measure the value of a statistical life. This is a serious mistake.