Markets

Why the U.S. Yield Curve Reliably Predicts U.S. Recessions
Economists, investors, and policy makers would do well to take seriously the predictive power of the yield curve, to study and comprehend not only its empirical but also its causal features.
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Law

Profiling for Crime: Who Is Too Blame?
A law-abiding black person denied a taxi is rightfully angered, but to whom should his anger be directed, at the driver who’s trying to protect his life or at the people who’ve instilled fear by robbing and assaulting cabbies?
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Culture

Political Advocacy Disguised with Obscure Academic Jargon
What today’s academics write, and what journals treat as neutral science, tends to reinforce only one side of the political spectrum.
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Politics

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the NBA, the NFL and the Sciences
What explains the fact that over 80% of professional basketball players are black, as are about 70% of professional football players?
World

The Tragedy of Africa: Foreign Aid and Debt Forgiveness
The official declarations coming out of the G8 meetings in Scotland, as well as the raucous demonstrations surrounding those meetings, talk about saving Africa. But, looking back over the decades and generations, Africa has been "saved" so many times that you have to...
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Science & Technology
The Green Fever Subsides
We all know that polls are just snapshots of a moment in time, taking the pulse of public opinion on some subject. A recent one by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, however, produced some encouraging news. Of 1,000 people polled, just over half said...
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