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• Summer 2016

  Civil Society’s Role in a Public Health Crisis

  Jay Walker

  When the next major pandemic strikes, it will be accompanied by something never before seen in human history: an explosion of billions of texts, tweets, e-mails, blogs, photos, and videos rocketing across… Read More

• Summer 2016

  Reshaping Space Policies to Meet Global Trends

  Bhavya Lal

  The space sector is undergoing a major transformation. Fifty years ago, the United States and the Soviet Union conducted the only significant national space programs, and only a small number of commercial… Read More

• Winter 2007

  Growing Old or Living Long: Take Your Pick

  Laura L. Carstensen

  The 20th century witnessed two profound changes in regions of the world where people are well educated and science and technology flourish: Life expectancy nearly doubled, and fertility rates fell dramatically. As… Read More

• Summer 2016

  Surviving the Techstorm

  Eleonore Pauwels

  In A Dangerous Master, Wendell Wallach, a scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, tells the story of modern society’s struggle to cope with technology’s complexity and uncertainty. In the… Read More

• Winter 2015

  Forum – Winter 2015

  William B. Bonvillian, Alan I. Leshner, Fanta Aw, Edward Alden, Diane Ravitch, Sarah A. Lewis, Robert Nerem, Kate Konschnik, Byron Newberry, Glen Miller, Deborah G. Johnson, Darryl Farber, Roel Snieder, Peter Kroes

  Immigration reform In “Streamlining the Visa Immigration Systems for Scientists and Engineers” (Issues, Fall 2014), Albert H. Teich articulates very well many of the arguments for making the U.S. visa… Read More

• Fall 2015

  Mapo Tofu with Spicy Cucumber Side

  Chris Merchant

  “Brain is like…black orb number eight,” Przemyslaw says. Orange light streams into the diner. Usually, the reporters just ask a few questions, shoot video, and scatter. Not this time. Przemyslaw fingers the… Read More

• Fall 2015

  Communicating the Value and Values of Science

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Science is communicated to the public, press, and policymakers in various ways by distinguished entities, which I have characterized elsewhere as custodians of knowledge. These include governmental institutions such as the National… Read More

• Summer 2011

  The Little Reactor That Could?

  Ross Carper, Sonja Schmid

  A week before Halloween 2009, John R. Deal, an entrepreneur who goes almost exclusively by “Grizz,” took the stage at the Denver Art Museum to deliver the headline talk at an evening… Read More

• Spring 2016

  Germline Gene Therapy: Don’t Let Good Intentions Spawn Bad Policy

  Henry Miller

  The proposed moratorium on clinical applications of gene editing technology reveals ignorance about how innovation works, and callousness about human suffering. “Human gene therapy” has been one of the most ambitious goals… Read More

• Fall 2015

  Bipartisan Science

  Andy Burness

  It’s not enough for scientists to clearly communicate their findings to policy makers; they need to be politically smart, too. This means highlighting evidence and options that can appeal to opposing ideologies.… Read More

• Spring 2015

  Clean Energy Diplomacy from Bush to Obama

  Graham Pugh

  The Bush administration didn’t get everything wrong about climate change, and the Obama administration isn’t getting everything right. A truly effective climate policy would include the best elements of each approach. Among… Read More

• Winter 2016

  Citizen Engineers at the Fenceline

  Gwen Ottinger

  Environmental regulators would do a better job protecting air quality and public health if they worked with local communities.

• Winter 2016

  What’s the Big Idea?

  Ray Rothrock

  I am a venture capitalist and have been for 27 years. Trained in nuclear engineering in the 1970s, I worked in that profession until 1988, when I joined Venrock, the private venture… Read More

• Winter 2016

  Exceptional Circumstances: Does Climate Change Trump Democracy?

  Nico Stehr

  Researchers who flirt with the idea that more authoritarian governance would help us address global warming are badly mistaken. What’s really needed is more democracy. The threats to democracy in the modern… Read More

• Fall 2014

  Imagining Deep Time

  An exhibit at the National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, DC “Geohistory is the immensely long and complex history of the earth, including the life on its surface (biohistory), as distinct from… Read More

• Winter 2015

  Is China a Clean-Energy Model?

  William Chandler

  Global climate negotiations have long been stymied by disagreement between rich and poor countries over who should take responsibility for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Less-developed nations tell developed countries, “You created this… Read More

• Fall 2015

  Jailhouse Rot

  Kevin Finneran

  Americans seem to have a thing for prisons. Not only do we have the world’s largest prison population, we have a rich and incongruous pop culture heritage of films and songs about… Read More

• Fall 2014

  Imagining the Future City

  Rider W. Foley, Darren Petrucci, Arnim Wiek

  A rich blend of engaging narrative and rigorous analysis can provide decisionmakers with the various perspectives they need when making choices with long-range consequences for cities around the world. An ashen sky … Read More

• Spring 2014

  A Survival Plan for the Wild Cyborg

  Rinie Van Est

  In order to stay human in the current intimate technological revolution, we must become high-tech people—cyborgs—with quirky characters.

• Winter 2014

  Water

  Edward Burtynsky

  Internationally renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky’s latest body of work, Water, explores the course, collection, control, displacement, and depletion of this vital natural resource. The exhibition is the second initiative… Read More

• Spring 2014

  Reconstructing the View

  The landscape has been a source of artistic exploration and contemplation since the earliest cave drawings. Represented in paintings and photography as well as film and the tourist’s snapshot, a variety… Read More

• Summer 2014

  Forum – Summer 2014

  Robert Atkinson, Cong Cao, Richard P. Suttmeier, Charles F. Manski, Miles Parker, Mike Bithell, Patrick Lin, David W. Kreutzer, Eville Gorham, Michael H. Klein, Mike Coburn, Lan Xue, Denis Simon

  Evidence-driven policy In “Advancing Evidence-Based Policymaking to Solve Social Problems” (Issues, Fall 2013), Jeffrey B. Liebman has written an informative and thoughtful article on the potential contribution of empirical analysis… Read More

• Spring 2014

  Archives – Spring 2014

  University of Texas at Dallas professor John Pomara’s work reflects an interest in the role that human error plays in technology, focusing primarily on the current state of painting and picture… Read More

• Fall 2013

  Rethinking “Science” Communication

  Prajwal Kulkarni

  More than two peer-reviewed articles are being published every minute of every hour of every day for the entire year. This staggering number should change how we think—and talk—about both science and scientists.

• Spring 2013

  Making Fuel Cells Work

  Noriko Behling

  For more than five decades, fuel cells have been heralded for their potential as a cost-efficient, environmentally friendly means to convert readily available chemical energy into electric energy. So far this… Read More

• Fall 2014

  An Archeology of Knowledge

  Mark Dion

  In recent years, much thought and research has been devoted to the visualization of information and “big data.” This has fostered more interactions with artists in an attempt to uncover innovative and… Read More

• Winter 2014

  My Brain is My Inkstand

  Drawing as Thinking and Process My Brain Is in My Inkstand: Drawing as Thinking and Process is an exhibition debuting at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, that brings together… Read More

• Winter 2014

  From the Hill – Winter 2014

  Congress passes budget deal, launches frenetic appropriations activity After a contentious few months that saw a two-week government shutdown, a narrowly-averted debt crisis, and continuing politicking over the size and shape of… Read More

• Summer 2013

  What’s Art Got to Do with It?

  Kevin Finneran

  For the past eight years Issues has been including art in addition to its written articles. There’s nothing unusual about including illustrations and other types of visual material to accompany articles in… Read More

• Winter 2013

  Forum – Winter 2013

  Brian Richter, William Happer, William R. Moomaw, Travis R. Doom, William Fulkerson, Steve Levine, Charles K. Ebinger, Susan Rundell Singer, Richard N. Zare, Richard Nelson, Julia Lane, David Michel, Edward A. Tiryakian, Cora Marrett

  Energy basics Bruce Everett (“Back to Basics on Energy Policy,” Issues, Fall 2012) reviews the history of government energy policy with discomforting accuracy. One can only hope that the article will… Read More