Scott Horton talked to Lyle Goldstein about the U.S.-Russia relationship and the future of global nuclear arms negotiations. "Goldstein says that after the Cold War, the world’s nuclear weapon situation was mostly under control—as a result, people today have...
Last week, the United States signed a five-year extension of the New START arms control treaty with Russia. Russia’s President Putin signed the treaty shortly thereafter. The “Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty” allows Russia and the US to monitor each...
AIER’s Business Cycle Conditions indexes were little changed in January with the Leading Indicators Index and Roughly Coincident Indicators Index both holding solidly above the neutral threshold of 50; the Lagging Indicators Index remained well below neutral. The Leading...
David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Elizabeth J. Dale, Seattle University, and Jasmine McGinnis Johnson, George Washington University Editor’s note: According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the top 50 Americans who gave the most to charity in...
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. One town’s police contract guaranteed a retiring lieutenant $121,000 for unused sick time. Another’s promises officers six...
Attempting to undermine the overwhelmingly popular push for an increase in the long-stagnant federal minimum wage, a Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee on Tuesday said derisively that "maybe we ought to go to $20 an hour." "Let's...
