I just was on a phone call with Henry, with people from his congressional district, police chiefs, NGOs, mayors, and it is pretty bad.
Congressman Cuellar has done everything he knows to do to try to get the nation’s attention...
"For his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare," Angus Deaton has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics (or, more formally, “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”).
Every year, the Nobel Prize is...
I do not understand why there is so much hate for people who are "different." The shooting in Orlando was a horrific tragedy and a senseless act of hate and violence.
I felt sad and angry at the same time....
In survey after survey the American people consistently have named PBS/NPR as their most trusted and unbiased institutions among nationally known organizations.
They have also ranked the the two media entities the most trusted source for news and public affairs...
The U.S. Senate recently passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill in a rare and much needed bipartisan action to inject funds to fix and expand roads, bridges, water systems, the power grid, and other pressing priorities.
It will doubtlessly...
Again? Sím! (“Yes,” in Portuguese). Yes, I’m compelled to write once again about my beloved Brazil.
It is our Brazil, together with the U.S. in the Americas. We all just finished, not so long ago, watching the 31st Olympics (and,...
The 2020 census is at risk due to inadequate funding, planning, and staffing, and the consequences could be quite significant.
The practice of counting and collecting information about the populace dates back to ancient times and, in fact, the source...
As part of the greater response to the coronavirus pandemic, Congress passed the CARES Act, which provided the state of Texas with $11.2 billion to help cover their COVID-19 related costs.
Of the $11.2 billion, the CARES Act directed 45...
About this time last year, I referred to Texas falling to fourth in the CNBC rankings of top states for business as “eerily disturbing.” That remark got more attention than I anticipated. My concern was only enhanced when the...
The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.
Although this may sound like a bureaucratic factoid from the other side of the ocean, it is not. This historic event will have serious negative consequences for the global economy, the politics...
