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Do environmental regulations help or hurt the economy? Ask the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates and you’ll get starkly different views.
Science and technology research has become so complicated and expensive that a gap has grown between the experiments scientists would like to do and what they have the means to do.
Remediation will never get radiation to zero in the area affected by the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant. Rather than safety, the conversation should focus on acceptable risk.
After 35 years, AIDS has changed the way the globe thinks about health, culture, and politics.
Despite the breakthroughs in HIV and AIDS research, without an effective vaccine, the world will not get to zero new infections and deaths.
Globally, the health community is moving to a point where there could be zero new HIV infections or deaths. But it has been a long road.
2016 will be a year of transitions in the Australia-US relationship. Against a backdrop of change are three important issues: the fight against Islamic State, China, and passage of the TPP.
Will Joe Hockey, a 19-year veteran of the Australian Parliament, be able to navigate an increasingly dysfunctional Washington as ambassador to the United States?
In the wake of the tragedy in Las Vegas, a criminologist reviews recent research to dispel common misconceptions about mass shootings.
Le marché a des côtés obscurs qui nous poussent à acheter des objets ou services mauvais pour nous. Mais n'est-ce pas au fond une des bases de l'économie de marché ? La réponse de deux prix Nobel.
While free markets have delivered benefits, they also prey on our weaknesses, tempting us to buy things that are bad for us, be it sweet candy or sour investments.
Palmarès des meilleurs restaurants du monde, classements en ligne des hôtels les plus appréciés… les consommateurs ont-ils toujours intérêt à utiliser ces éléments pour faire leurs choix. Pas sûr.
William Isdale speaks with Lawrence Gostin about the lessons we can learn from the global response to last year's Ebola outbreak and the future of global health.
There are plenty of alternatives to rule by the military strongman that is destroying Egypt. But most of the viable leaders are in exile or jail.
Despite progress in lifting people above poverty lines around the world, the picture is bleaker for people at the very bottom of the ladder. They have largely missed out on the gains of recent decades.
Even when a hotel or restaurant ranking accurately reflects quality, consumers may be better off not knowing.
The West has stood by and watched as democracy was stifled in Egypt. It will reap the whirlwind.
Economic research over the past 50 years shows efforts to regulate telecoms as utilities doesn’t work.
One year on from the Connecticut shootings and the “gun-control paradox” still reigns in US politics. In the wake of the murder of the 20 children and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the response…
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Senior Species Recovery Specialist, Road to Recovery, The Earth Commons, Georgetown University
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Director, Women's Center, Georgetown University
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Environmental Science and Sustainability, Georgetown University
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University
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Associate Professor of Environmental History, Georgetown University
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Professor of the Practice and Faculty Director of the Master's in Applied Intelligence, Georgetown University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
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Adjunct Professor of Domestic Terrorism, Georgetown University
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Faculty, African Studies and Security Studies, Georgetown University
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Senior Research Analyst, Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
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Associate Professor of Technology Law & Policy, Georgetown University
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Dean of The Earth Commons, Professor of Biology and the Environment, Georgetown University
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Professor of Management, Georgetown University
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Associate Professor of Sustainability, Georgetown University
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Director of Catholic Studies, Georgetown University