For most of 2012, President Obama has been running in the Democratic primary. I know that seems odd, given that he’s essentially running unopposed. But that's not what I'm talking about.

The main problem with the recent IMF programmes to countries such as Greece and Portugal has not been one of size or duration but rather one of policy misdiagnosis. 

Geography and the literal political landscape are helping shape the response to the alternative minimum tax.

The term "political science" used to mean public policy studied not just as opinion but based on empirical, documentable evidence. Today it's come to mean something darker--the subversion of science in the hands of ideologues committed to manipulating public policy to their end. This new, and disheartening use of the...

Should IMF-style austerity programmes result in anything like the collapse of the Latvian economy in Europe's periphery, it would render the continued servicing of the periphery's debt well nigh impossible.

Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

Avoiding unilateralism may be helpful, but it can cost more than it's worth.

The economic recessions in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal will become deeper if the IMF and the EU don't recognize that the countries in the periphery suffer from solvency rather than liquidity problems--which are not amenable to correction by fiscal retrenchment alone in a fixed exchange rate system.