The future of urban transportation While Washington debates the economic mayhem surrounding bailouts and foreclosures, a more mundane phenomenon quietly imposes tremendous economic costs on America’s urban areas: traffic jams. The Texas Transportation Institute estimates that urban traffic congestion causes a $78 billion annual drain on the economy, in the form of 4.2 billion lost hours and 2.9 billion gallons ... Read More
How the world can end human trafficking Some evils are hard to shake. To the surprise of many, an estimated 27 million people are currently enslaved worldwide. As a result of human trafficking, people across the globe are routinely coerced into exploitive relationships for the monetary benefit of others, often for the purpose of forced labor or prostitution. As professor ... Read More
The prospects for Obama's energy plan
How faith based charities are changing governanceBy Peyton R. Miller History will likely remember George W. Bush as a “war president” who responded to 9/11 with increased domestic security and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet his initial campaign for the presidency had little to do with terrorism. In a 2000 article for the Hoover Institution, Stephen Goldsmith, former mayor ... Read More
