By Feb 03,2014

Rethinking the Tragedy Of The Commons

Owning the fish might save them. Conventional wisdom has maintained that overfishing can only be solved by public intervention. Ecologist Garrett Hardin’s “tragedy of the commons” has been read as...

By Aug 28,2013

No Winning In Syria

The U.S. and the U.K. have now said explicitly that they are prepared to take military action against Syria without authorization from the United Nations Security Council. Congress is currently...

By Aug 16,2013

Google Says What The Government Thinks

In the course of a class-action lawsuit filed against Google in California, the company claimed its Gmail users have “no legitimate expectation of privacy.” Now the internet is in an...

By Jul 29,2013

Obamacare Faces Another Legal Hurdle

President Obama’s health care overhaul survived one trip to the Supreme Court, but another lawsuit threatens to make the exchanges (statewide health insurance markets) all but inoperable. The problem for...