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In The National Origin of Policy Ideas, sociologist John Campbell and political scientist Ove Pedersen write: We live in a marketplace of ideas and it’s incredibly competitive...

Read the full 2018-2019 annual report. The Niskanen Center is in the policy change business. But so are a lot of people. Unlike many of them, we embrace evidence-based theories of policy...

Congressional negotiators recently announced a resolution to questions about the “tax extenders” package under consideration for inclusion in the end of year spending deal...

View Full Document as PDF Dear Chairman Pai: We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to take decisive action to make additional mid-band spectrum available without delay. Such...

Johnson says he will repay new Conservative voters in former Labour strongholds. His compassion may not survive BrexitWinning a majority in parliament gives Boris Johnson more...

By only reacting to controversy when profit is at stake, clubs do more damage to their image than any players’ comments couldWhat is a modern-day hero? I re-read To Kill a Mockingbird...

Hackers may have obtained the personal data of 15 million LifeLabs clients after a systems breach, and this includes addresses, passwords, birthdays, health card numbers and, in...

Former interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose thinking over the possibility of leadership bid, a source with close knowledge of the situation has told CTV News...

The article also explains why ‘understanding forced reconnection can help modelers better predict when disruptive high-energy charged particles might come speeding at Earth.’...

As the COP 25 summit ends in disarray, all attempts to stoke up fears of a man-made ‘climate crisis’ are not going well, in some parts of the world at least. Hard to see developing...

Some things in the narrative do not add up. Are there other forces at play in the drama between lawyers and Delhi Police?

Urging all users to update WhatsApp to the latest version, security researchers at global cybersecurity firm Check Point identified the flaw that would allow a bad actor to create...

PewDiePie aka Felix Kjellberg said that he will be away from YouTube for a while in early next year because he is 'very tired'.

Another finding is that their areas of the motor brain are more efficiently organised. The findings of the study were published in the journal Brain and Behavior. The research was...

After the launch, he asserted that the launch was an achievement of an important milestone in the history of PSLV. Releasing a book titled ‘PSLV@ 50’ on this occasion, Sivan said...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, whose country hosts 3.7 million Syrian refugees, the largest refugee population worldwide, said more than 600,000 should voluntarily join...

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Tuesday said that President Donald Trump supports massive US government spending plans hammered out by Congress this week...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday refused to back down on its Citizenship Amendment Act implementation, saying that the government will provide citizenship to persecuted...

The rail connectivity between North Bengal and South Bengal as signalling system has been completely ransacked and vandalised at Malda and Murshidabad informed the railway authority...

LONDON: Britain's government said on Tuesday (Dec 17) it will legislate to ensure a post-Brexit transition period does not extend beyond 2020, sending the pound sinking as the European...

WASHINGTON: The US Congress voted on Tuesday (Dec 17) to lift a decades-old arms embargo on Cyprus, defying Turkey by seeking warmer ties at a time of renewed tensions. The Senate approved...

Donald Trump will soon be the third US President impeached. Does that mean he might engineer a foreign policy crisis to distract the American public? Steven Okun provides some perspective...

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday (Dec 17) denounced China for its heavy-handed actions against Arsenal over footballer Mesut Ozil's support for incarcerated...

Team Corbyn ran a woeful campaign and failed pretty badly in connecting with many Brits, says University of Sterling’s Eric Shaw.

As a maritime nation, Indonesia plays an important role in taking concrete and realistic actions on climate change, says an expert.