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• May 31, 2016

  States Lead in Reducing Mass Incarceration

  Tom Burroughs

    5/31/16 – Efforts by some states to reduce their incarceration rates reveal lessons that may help policymakers in other state and federal jurisdicitons reach this aim, analysts who have studied justice… 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

  CRISPR Democracy: Gene Editing and the Need for Inclusive Deliberation

  Sheila Jasanoff, Krishanu Saha, J. Benjamin Hurlbut

  The precise and powerful CRISPR gene-editing technology raises basic questions about the rightful place of science in democratic governance.

• 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

• 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

• 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

  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

• Summer 2015

  Forum – Summer 2015

  Craig Boardman, Richard C. Atkinson, Patricia A. Pelfrey, Irwin Feller, Arthur T. Johnson, Christopher Newfield, Carol Christ, Luis Tenorio, Leonard A. Smith, Richard A. Rosen, Ron S. Kenett, John Shade, Joseph Norman, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Rupert Read, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Amanda Hering

  Whither universities? In “A New Model for the American Research University” (Issues, Spring 2015), Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars argue that public and private research universities are stuck… 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

  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

• 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

• Spring 2015

  Have Universities Overbuilt Biomedical Research Facilities?

  Ann M. Arvin, Arthur Bienenstock, David Korn

  In a September 10, 2010, Science editorial, Bruce Alberts called attention to what he perceived to be an overbuilding of biomedical research facilities by the nation’s universities and medical schools, driven by… 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

• Summer 2015

  Wiki-ki Yay? Not so Fast

  G. Pascal Zachary

  For people who work with information, Wikipedia is endlessly fascinating because of its swift emergence as an everyday source of usually reliable facts and observations about people, places, and things. Yet despite… 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.

• Spring 2015

  Pythia of Science

  Josh Trapani

  Sophia wakes to find her SocialStream full of supportive texts, toots, bleets, and bumps, including one from Noah. gr8 luck today, babe! His message grates her, negating the positive vibes from her… Read More

• 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

• November 12, 2013

  Editorial Information

  Author Guidelines Issues in Science and Technology is the quarterly policy journal of the National Academy of Sciences and Arizona State University. We publish articles that analyze current topics in science, technology,… Read More

• November 12, 2013

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  Lisa MargonelliEditor-in-Chieflmargonelli@issues.org Monya BakerSenior Editormbaker@issues.org Megan NicholsonSenior Editormnicholson@issues.org Jason LloydManaging Editorjlloyd@issues.org Kelsey SchoenbergProjects Editorkschoenberg@issues.org Kimberly QuachDigital Engagement Editorkquach@issues.org Xavier AdamsAssistant Editorxadams@issues.org William KearneyEditorwkearney@nas.edu Brandon … Read More