While the Common Core effort to impose uniform national standards on K-12 schooling is a good start toward testing new educational techniques on a level playing field, increasing federal control over education could have major drawbacks.

Do global warming initiatives create jobs?

To build resilience to the impact of global warming, the United States should incorporate an adaptation agenda as well as advance technologies that allow the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

There are good reasons why some military systems get used and others collect dust.

There are ways to combat the troubling accountability gap in refugee protection in the developing world.

Though air quality continues to improve, those gains have come at the cost of devoting resources to creating administrative requirements, rather than reducing pollution.

Which climate policy approach will succeed the Kyoto Protocol: cap-and-trade or a carbon tax?

Contrary to current policy approaches that focus on mitigating GHG emissions to the exclusion of everything else, resilience should be considered the default climate strategy.