The American (Washington, DC)

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Give thanks for academic sleuths: Thomas J. Healey and Matthew A. Scog...
November 01, 2008

Moore's curse and the great energy delusion: from the venture capital ...
November 01, 2008

Charlotte's moment: Chip Jones discovers how a city's leaders turned a...
November 01, 2008

Engineering the climate: what if it's not possible to cut greenhouse g...
November 01, 2008

Sundown for California: millions once moved to California for its boun...
November 01, 2008

How's business? Americans believe Wall Street's contributions to the e...
November 01, 2008

The venturesome consumer: why is the United States a great home for in...
November 01, 2008

For the greater goods: the benefits of modern marketing and advertisin...
November 01, 2008

The sultan: Vladimir Putin has harnessed patronage, nepotism, and cron...
November 01, 2008

'If there's nothing to do, do nothing': James Tisch of the Loews Corpo...
November 01, 2008

The start-ups we don't need: Scott Shane examines a dangerous myth tha...
November 01, 2008

A gangster has many faces: UC-Berkeley economist Edward Miguel explore...
November 01, 2008

His brilliant career: John E. Calfee recalls the story of Maurice Hill...
November 01, 2008

Beat the cheats: college faculty now use technology to combat cheating...
November 01, 2008

Regulating our way to freedom? A new Congress may be tempted to add a ...
November 01, 2008

God, man, and the ballot box: Reuel Marc Gerecht explains why, despite...
November 01, 2008

About that message to Garcia: Robert McHenry reflects on a signature A...
November 01, 2008

The Golden Calf: English artist Damien Hirst sells out while Wall Stre...
November 01, 2008

From the editor.(financial crises)(Editorial)
November 01, 2008

Healthy choice: allowing consumers to buy health insurance across stat...
November 01, 2008

The global middle gets bigger: despite all the gloomy economic news, t...
November 01, 2008

Closing the happiness gap: are Americans happier today than they were ...
November 01, 2008

Jumping on the 'change' bandwagon: slashing corporate taxes is one typ...
November 01, 2008

The human capital factor: economists Jaison R. Abel and Todd M. Gabe c...
November 01, 2008

Measuring American generosity: why traditional foreign aid statistics ...
November 01, 2008

Ranking the presidents: presidential scholar Alvin Felzenberg offers a...
November 01, 2008

Immigrants and innovation: what is the connection between skilled immi...
November 01, 2008

A closer look at middle-class 'stagnation': the data are more complica...
November 01, 2008

What you don't hear about CEO pay: before increasing regulations on co...
November 01, 2008

Why gasoline is still king: electric roadsters are the darlings of the...
November 01, 2008

Swingers: which states will decide the 2008 presidential election?(THE...
September 01, 2008

A matter of trust: what is the correlation between government regulati...
September 01, 2008

Creating 'green-collar' jobs: expanding nuclear power would be good fo...
September 01, 2008

Flag on the play! Economist Trevon D. Logan says that 'the conventiona...
September 01, 2008

The best (and worst) states for business: what do America's corporate ...
September 01, 2008

Demography and economic destiny: workforce age composition has played ...
September 01, 2008

How China helps America's poor: University of Chicago economist Christ...
September 01, 2008

Read all about it: Jonathan Yardley has spent half a century in the Am...
September 01, 2008

Upwardly mobile America: are we in a new 'gilded age' where the rich a...
September 01, 2008

Inequality and the Sergey Brin effect: Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz ar...
September 01, 2008

Too many people are going to college: today's college system is implic...
September 01, 2008

After Milwaukee: the most heralded experiment in education markets has...
September 01, 2008

The college track: onward and upward: the plans, proclivities, and pol...
September 01, 2008

Innovators' dilemmas: Genentech's Susan Desmond-Hellman on the FDA, re...
September 01, 2008

Start-up town: Ben Casnocha describes how a quiet little hippie city, ...
September 01, 2008

The other half of standard oil: John D. Rockefeller has dominated the ...
September 01, 2008

The exception that proves the rule: all of the world's national oil co...
September 01, 2008

Have yourself committed: having a hard time sticking to a goal? Daniel...
September 01, 2008

Why you hate to fly: thirty years ago this October, the era of afforda...
September 01, 2008

Closing Iran's oil spigot: Robert Haddick explains why there is one la...
September 01, 2008

When an epoch began: in a single year the frontier closed, a course to...
September 01, 2008

The architect who meant business: Eero Saarinen and the aspirations of...
September 01, 2008

From the editor.(Editorial)
September 01, 2008

Still the one: a new RAND report suggests that the 'decline' of Americ...
September 01, 2008

Follow the leader: what do NBA statistics tell us about the importance...
September 01, 2008

Pay to performance: how has executive compensation changed over the pa...
September 01, 2008

The globalization factor: economists Raphael Auer and Andreas M. Fisch...
September 01, 2008

Where goes the neighborhood? Some common assumptions about urban gentr...
September 01, 2008

From the editor.(Editorial)
July 01, 2008

To join the tax-cut race? Reducing the corporate tax rate would be a s...
July 01, 2008

It's not easy being green: a Dartmouth study finds that voluntary corp...
July 01, 2008

Compensation confusion: confirmation that U.S. incomes have roughly ke...
July 01, 2008

A 'Windfall' of unintended consequences: as motorists feel pain at the...
July 01, 2008

Wal-Mart to the rescue? As economist Steven Horwitz shows, the retail ...
July 01, 2008

A more secure workplace: economist Steven J. Davis argues that there h...
July 01, 2008

Food fight: rising food prices have caused hardship in the developing ...
July 01, 2008

Smoke and (broken) mirrors: according to new research, smoking bans ha...
July 01, 2008

The secrets of their success: What makes a Best-selling car? Ralph Kin...
July 01, 2008

Where credit is due: Stanford economist Jonathan Levin a began investi...
July 01, 2008

How are we doing? the American economy is in a rough patch. But W. Mic...
July 01, 2008

The growth solution: the United States has moved beyond its era of 'Bi...
July 01, 2008

What do we know about the uninsured? Separating fact from fiction, THO...
July 01, 2008

The good news about energy that you don't hear: a deep pessimism surro...
July 01, 2008

An energy policy we can stick to: Andy Grove, former chairman of Intel...
July 01, 2008

America's other immigration crisis: the United States has a pressing i...
July 01, 2008

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