The New York Times Says Heat Waves Are Getting Worse. The National Climate Assessment Disagrees.
At least in the lower 48 states.
United States
How To Get Better at Budgets
In a few countries, legislators have enacted policies that actually constrain spending. The U.S. has a lot to learn.
Army Tweets 'How Has Serving Impacted You?' Gets Thousands of Responses About the Horrors of War
"My cousin committed suicide while on duty at the armory after coming home from a tour abroad."
Quit Worrying and Learn To Love Trade With China
Fretting over deficits and intellectual property will do no good and much harm.
Trump Praises America's Oil and Natural Gas Production in State of the Union Address
The U.S. is the world's biggest producer of oil and natural gas
Fewer U.S. Cold Waves
Cold waves aren't as common as they used to be, but research suggests that climate change could still make polar vortexes worse.
What We Don't Know About U.S. Airstrikes in Somalia and Everywhere Else
The war continues and it's costing lives.
After Living Abroad, Kids Struggle With American Overparenting
In the home of the brave, a kid can't hold a pencil on the school bus.
Is Climate Change Making Hurricanes More Destructive?
Not yet in the United States, new studies suggest
U.S. Baby Bust Fears Inspire a Radical Policy Proposal
Is the solution a "fertility dividend" that makes a portion of a person's Social Security benefit dependent on each of their offspring's earnings?
National Climate Report Projects Future Weather and Economic Trends
"Climate-related threats to Americans' physical, social, and economic well-being are rising," says report.
U.S. Total Fertility Rates Continue To Fall
Falling fertility means that folks now have increasing power to choose the number of children that they wish to have.
We Are in the Midst of the Third Bogus 'White Extinction' Panic in Just as Many Centuries
Anti-immigrant fearmongers of demographic doom proved wrong in the 19th and 20th centuries, and today's will be no different.
Every European Union Country Is Failing to Meet Their Climate Change Commitments
Meanwhile U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to fall
Inclusive vs. Exclusive Whiteness in Census Bureau Data
Projections of minority-majority U.S. population are based on outdated and arbitrary ethno-racial Census categories.
Hooray! U.S. Fertility Rate Falls to 40-Year Low
Exercising reproductive freedom is a good thing.
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Carbon Dioxide: U.S. Emissions Down, European Emissions Up
Despite the E.U.'s carbon markets and vast renewable energy subsidies
No Freedom From the Church of America
The religion this church administers is Americanism, a species of nationalism.
Master Resource Reprises My Takedown of the National Academy of Sciences' Energy Projections
How is America's Energy Future looking nine years after I first panned it? Not so good.
High School Students Are Very Worried About Overpopulation. They Shouldn't Be.
New report claims U.S. overpopulation will blight their futures.
Should the Government Try to Bribe You Into Having More Babies?
Increased wealth and technological progress give people greater liberty to decide when, how, with whom, and if they want to reproduce.
Stossel: Happy Thanksgiving!
This Thanksgiving, say thank you to "private property".
No, the U.S. Didn't Just Take a Stand for Executing Gay People
Don't believe the hype about the U.N.'s resolution on the death penalty.
'I'm Not Willing to Sacrifice Freedom of Expression on the Altar of Cultural Diversity'
Muhammad cartoon publisher Flemming Rose talks about immigration, free speech, and toleration.
Warmer Temperatures: More Climate Satisfaction in U.S.
At least for the next several decades.
For U.S. 'Dangerous' Climate Change Is Like Moving 180 Miles South: New at Reason
New study finds Americans would prefer warmer weather on balance
Tillerson Suggests Pre-Emptive Military Action Against North Korea a Possibility
The U.S. is warning North Korea to denuclearize or else.
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall 3 Percent
Global emissions flat for 3rd year in a row despite strong economic growth
Global Press Freedom at 12-Year Low
The real fake news is calling the free press an enemy of the people.
How Free Is YOUR State? All 50 States Ranked by Personal and Economic Freedoms
New Hampshire, Alaska, and Oklahoma are tops, but can you guess the three worst states?
More Good News: U.S. Teen Birth Rate Continues to Fall
U.S. total fertility rate close to lowest ever too
Good News: U.S. Death Rate Resumes Falling
Rose last year as a result of drug overdosing and stalled progress on heart disease
Is Russia Using U.K. and U.S. Domestic Spying Laws as a Model?: New at Reason
"In Russia, the legislation is compared to the USA Patriot Act."
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Again—Down 12 Percent from 2005
Yet the U.S. economy grew in real terms by 15 percent since 2005.
You Are $13,000 Poorer Because of Federal Regulations
New study quantifies the damage to economic growth that the accumulation of regulations causes
Governments Hating On Press Freedom More, Says Reporters Without Borders
The U.S. has a satisfactory score, but our country could do a lot better.
Climate Change Has Made U.S. Weather More Pleasant, Says Nature Study
Most Americans live in counties that are experiencing more pleasant weather than they did forty years ago
The Dying of the Poor White Americans
The gap in life expectancy between the top and bottom 1 percent of income for American men is nearly 15 years. For women, it's 10 years.
Assume 6 Feet of Sea Level Rise: Predict Catastrophe
Useful science or worst case scaremongering?
Ethnic Attrition: Third Generation Americans Ignore Census' Ethnic Pigeonholes
Trump voters who fear a white minority U.S. should just relax.
The New Nuclear Energy Revolution
Throwing off excessive regulatory precaution will bend the nuclear cost curve down, argues new study
