One of benefits of the market mechanism, by which, for example, economic goods are bought and sold, is that self-interest is relied on; peop...

Domestic governance is perhaps more difficult than international relations in that real enforcement mechanisms are in force only in the form...

The European Commission, the E.U.’s executive branch, has been known for being a technocratic institution. Yet in drafting regulations, imp...

The natural right to food unconditionally in society is based, I submit, on the assumption that it is because a person without food is in s...

“A broad bipartisan majority of the Senate voted [on June 15, 2011] to end more than three decades of federal subsidies for ethanol. . . ....

The Big Bang took place 13.7 billion years ago. Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago out of “stardust.” So our planet is not nearly ...

With regard to genetically-modified (GM) foodstuffs, an interesting cultural difference between Americans and Europeans surfaces. Even th...

In negotiating free-trade deals with the U.S. and Japan, E.U. officials had to reckon with differing concerns of particular state intere...

I contend that it is in our interest as a species to see that our population size is managed toward a steady state rather than as a maximiz...