The right’s resistance to regulation
Book details how conservatives have changed the terms of the environmental debate in recent decades.
The health-insurance markets of the (very near) future
Policymakers must address ‘tension’ between competition and ease of use.
MIT Libraries’ research contributes to award-winning redistricting software, DistrictBuilder
Web-based resource gives citizens the opportunity to participate in the redistricting process.
How Jonathan Gruber became ‘Mr. Mandate’
An MIT economist’s path to the center of health-care policymaking in Washington.
F. Daniel Hidalgo: it’s electric
The influence of electronic ballots on democracy in the developing world
The state of the U.S. election system
New report from MIT and Caltech notes gains in voting-machine technologies, but warns they could be cancelled out by errors introduced through mail and Internet voting.
3 Questions: Charles Stewart sizes up the 2012 election
MIT political scientist and voting expert weighs in on the state of the presidential campaign, the shifting demographics of America, and the tossup U.S. Senate races.
Presidential campaigns offer energetic energy debate at MIT
Representatives of Obama, Romney camps lay out differences in crucial policy domains of energy and the environment.
Sarah Stewart Johnson, EAPS PhD, gives rein to curiosity
Alumna envisions combining academia with public policy
Understanding gambling addiction
For machine gamblers, it’s not whether they win or lose — it’s how much they play the game.