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What's on the Menu? A Status Quo That Needs to Change — May 23, 2012
Iran's Buying Time—and That's Fine — May 22, 2012
Putin's NATO Dis: Cold Winds from Moscow — May 17, 2012
NATO's Shrinking Resources — May 17, 2012
Emergency Departments, Medicaid Costs, and Access to Primary Care—Understanding the Link — May 16, 2012
Questions After the First U.S. Bank Takeover by a Chinese State-Controlled Company — May 15, 2012
Should Boeing Fear the PRC's Aerospace Industry? Not in This Decade but Maybe Later — May 13, 2012
Celebrating Birth Control on Mother's Day? Not as Counterintuitive as It Sounds — May 11, 2012
A Flood of Innovation: Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan — May 11, 2012
A Final Word on the NDAA — May 6, 2012
The Next War — May 3, 2012
Obama Learned from Bush's Mistakes and Successes — May 2, 2012
Is the War on Terror Over? Not Yet. — April 30, 2012
Al Qaeda Is Far from Defeated — April 29, 2012
Think Again: Al Qaeda — April 23, 2012
The Marijuana Exception — April 20, 2012
Book Review: 'Why Nations Fail,' by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson — April 20, 2012
Cairo's Candidate Shuffle — April 19, 2012
Iran's Calculations in New Diplomatic Talks — April 17, 2012
Russia Protests Are Overblown by West—Putin Is Here to Stay — April 17, 2012
The Path to the Right Active/Reserve Mix: You Need to Understand Cost Per Output — April 16, 2012
Terror's 'Invisible Women' — April 4, 2012
History Favors More Time — April 3, 2012
Will Khamenei Compromise? — April 2, 2012
The Real Cost of Healthcare — March 29, 2012
Using Patient Surveys to Rate Hospitals — March 22, 2012
What Happens Without Individual Mandate? — March 21, 2012
Promoting Success: Using Data to Inform Decision Making — March 21, 2012
No Data? Big Problem. — March 20, 2012
RAND Expert Says Evidence for Climate Change Is Overwhelming — March 8, 2012
The Return of Putin — March 8, 2012
Three Ways to Improve Airport Screening — March 7, 2012
U.S. and Israel Need to Agree on Strike Against Iran — March 5, 2012
Five Myths about Vladimir Putin — March 4, 2012
Will Anything Change After This Weekend's Russian Election? — March 3, 2012
Military Families: What We Know and What We Don't Know — March 2, 2012
Bringing Libya Under Control — February 25, 2012
Khamenei: The Nuclear Decision-maker — February 23, 2012
Do Physicians Need a 'Shopping Cart' for Health Care Services? — February 22, 2012
Israel's Risky Option on Iran — February 21, 2012
Syria Is Trending Toward the Libya Model — February 14, 2012
Colleges Can Learn from For-Profits' Emphasis on the Consumer — February 9, 2012
The NDAA Makes It Harder to Fight Terrorism — February 1, 2012
US Control of Contractors in Iraq Is Vital — February 1, 2012
Al Qaeda in Iran — January 29, 2012
Is Regime Change in Iran the Only Solution? — January 26, 2012
Passionate, Pragmatic, Prudent: A New RAND President and RAND at Its Best — January 13, 2012
Negotiating Peace in Afghanistan Without Repeating Vietnam — January 13, 2012
Do Israelis Really Want to Bomb Iran? — January 12, 2012
Narrowing the Economic Achievement Gap: The Role of Housing — January 11, 2012
Iran's Self-Destructive Gamble — January 6, 2012
Two Years and Counting: How Will the Effects of the Affordable Care Act Be Monitored? — January 4, 2012
Heed Film Lessons on Outbreak — December 29, 2011
North Korea: Uncertain and Dangerous Times Ahead — December 21, 2011
The Year of the Arab Spring — December 20, 2011
Bridging the Gaps in Treating Veterans with Post-Deployment Mental Health Problems — December 5, 2011
Dissuading Iran from the Bomb and Avoiding War — December 2, 2011
Research Funding and Economic Growth — November 29, 2011
Provider Consolidation Key Factor in Affordable Coverage — November 28, 2011
History Shows Danger of Arbitrary Defense Cuts — November 23, 2011
Save Money — Hire Police — November 22, 2011
An Attack Would Only Strengthen Iran's Influence — November 16, 2011
Can the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Become Relevant to Controlling Medical Costs and Improving Value? — November 9, 2011
Where Keynes Went Wrong — November 7, 2011
Why the Haqqani Network Is the Wrong Target — November 6, 2011
Seven Billion? No Need to Panic — November 4, 2011
An Open Door in Libya — October 20, 2011
Ensuring the ACA Helps Reduce Disparities—Not Exacerbate Them — October 14, 2011
Security from the Bottom Up — October 7, 2011
Next Big Obstacle for Obama's Affordable Care Act? It's Not Just the Supreme Court — October 3, 2011
A System Under Strain — September 30, 2011
Awlaki's Death Hits al-Qaeda's Social Media Strategy — September 30, 2011
Don't Overestimate Afghanistan Pessimism — September 29, 2011
The Debate over Teacher Merit Pay: A Freakonomics Quorum — September 20, 2011
Is It Time to Withdraw from Afghanistan? — September 19, 2011
The Transatlantic Impact of 9/11 — September 13, 2011
The Unmentionable Costs of Airline Security — September 13, 2011
Iran's Growing State of Civil Disobedience — September 8, 2011
Five Myths about 9/11 — September 2, 2011
Is it Time to Consider a New Approach to Airline Security? — September 1, 2011
All Models Fail in Certain Situations — August 31, 2011
Quake a Disaster 'Drill' D.C. Flunked — August 29, 2011
Dropping Out, Imprisoned or Killed: Disparities in Outcomes Faced by Young African American Men — August 26, 2011
Commanding Democracy in Egypt: The Military's Attempt to Manage the Future — August 25, 2011
Tokyo's Transformation — August 25, 2011
Libyan Nation Building After Qaddafi — August 23, 2011
California's Prisoner Shuffle — August 19, 2011
Insurance Expansion and Health Literacy — August 9, 2011
The Case for Keeping U.S. Troops in Northern Iraq — August 3, 2011
Redefining the Transatlantic Relationship—Europe's Paradoxical Pacifism — August 1, 2011
Follow the Money — July 14, 2011
Ahmadinejad vs. the Revolutionary Guards — July 11, 2011
Clinical Decision Support and Malpractice Risk — July 6, 2011
Africa Needs Its Own Indicators of Scientific Innovation — July 6, 2011
Europe's Ukrainian Test — June 30, 2011
Obama on Afghanistan: Strategic Drawdown or Rush for the Door? — June 23, 2011
How Whistleblower Rule Enables Corporate Compliance — June 14, 2011
Osama a Wizard of Illusion and Rhetoric — June 1, 2011
In Memoriam — May 29, 2011
Glimpse of bin Laden Techniques in Captured Records of al-Qa'ida in Iraq — May 27, 2011
How Might bin Laden's Demise Affect Business? — May 25, 2011
What Should We Expect of Our Spies? — May 25, 2011