Professor Anthony Levitas is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Since the...

The days leading up to April 15 are filled with panic for many Americans who, upon realizing that their tax returns are due, must search...

The median wealth of a white family is $171,000. Among Black families, it’s just $17,600, and the gap between those two numbers has more...

In many states consumers do not pay sales tax for online purchases, unlike their traditional brick-and-mortar counterparts. Legislators...

Every day, more and more Swedish workers are working less and less. This is not because of unemployment or laziness, but due to a...

The two largest sports events of the year come with much fanfare: The NFL’s Super Bowl is famous for multi-million dollar advertisements...

There are probably not very many issues on which Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn and I see eye-to-eye. If you look at his website, he...

Walking into MetroMart on Thayer, I pick up my third iPhone charger of the semester. I’m a forgetful person usually, and iPhone chargers...

Bob Inglis, a former Republican congressman from South Carolina, spoke to members of the Brown community Tuesday about climate change....

The US Postal Service is what’s wrong with America. I should clarify: the USPS is a microcosm of many of the issues currently confronting...

Editor’s Note: The following guest column comes to us from Graham Sheridan, master of public affairs candidate at Brown University’s...

Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act (from Wikimedia Commons) I’ve come to view Paul Krugman as belligerent and repetitive, but he’s...

A weak form of this argument appears in Oliver Hudson’s article for the Brown Daily Herald, “Universal Suffrage is Immoral.” It appears...

The Economist recently posted an interesting article on fiscal transfers between the sixteen German states, with the subtitle “Germans...

Marked ballot. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Although the country as a whole has been devastated by the current economic...

A new leaked video records Mitt Romney speaking at an unnamed, undated private fundraiser. Coincidentally, new data released hours...

Not that anyone will need this, but the Romney video isn’t wrong—it’s just plain weird. By now, we’ve all seen it: In the recording,...