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China In The Lead
(Crossposted from the Apollo Alliance Blog) It’s easy to forget that global warming has sparked a global response when the stalemate in Congress over national climate legislation continues, even despite the fact that the latest consequence...
Do Conservatives “Just Hate All Taxes”?
In a generally well-written article, HPR staff writer Will Rafey recently addressed the need to raise the gas tax “to make the private cost of driving a car reflect its actual social costs: global warming, air pollution, traffic congestion, and highway...
How to Pass a Gas Tax
The politics of an unpopular policy In 1993, President Bill Clinton pushed the last bill through Congress to increase the gas tax. Even this, however, was...
Divining the Progress of the Climate Bill
Since the recent explosion of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, the politics of the climate bill have become more complicated, according to the New York Times. ...
Barack on the ball, and on the oil
This week’s big environmental news, namely that President Obama has authorized major offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska, may not be popular...
How Obama Can Save the Environment (Among Other Things)
The Obama administration environmental agenda reemerged on Thursday with the announcement of additional restrictions on strip mining, new fuel efficiency standards...
The Spring 2010 Issue of the HPR is out!
The Spring 2010 issue of the Harvard Political Review is available here in an online browseable pdf format. Most articles are also now available on HarvardPoliticalReview.com,...
Steven Levitt’s Solution to Climate Change
Professor Steven D. Levitt, an eminent popular economist from the University of Chicago and co-author of the widely successful books Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics...
Putting a Price on Climate Change
Copenhagen postmortem and the question of climate aid. After two years of intense negotiation and eager anticipation of a new international climate-change...
The Climate Is Getting Overheated
On Tuesday night I went to the Harvard Political Union’s discussion on climate change, which was centered around the question of what steps the University...
Current Issue: Spring 2010
Religion in America
- Is Godless Great? A New Heyday for American Secularism
The American Way of Faith Compromise, innovation, and tradition
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