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• March 24, 2021

  Clean Firm Power is the Key to California’s Carbon-Free Energy Future

  Jane C.S. Long, Ejeong Baik, Jesse D. Jenkins, Clea Kolster, Kiran Chawla, Arne Olson, Armond Cohen, Michael Colvin, Sally M. Benson, Robert B. Jackson, David G. Victor, Steven P. Hamburg

  California’s government has set ambitious goals to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, starting with electricity. A 2018 law mandated that, by 2045, all retail sales of electricity in the state must derive from… Read More

• March 9, 2021

  Economics

  William E. Spriggs

  In the year 2020, under the tutelage of the novel coronavirus, we learned that many things we assumed could be ignored because we thought they were solid “givens” are really shaky and… Read More

• Winter 2021

  How “Multiple Breadbasket Failure” Became a Policy Issue

  Molly Jahn

  On December 12, 2017, the US Congress reauthorized the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2018. Every year, this massive bill authorizes spending for the Department of Defense. But this time, it… Read More

• Fall 2020

  Will Robotic Trucks Be “Sweatshops on Wheels”?

  Steve Viscelli

  The future of self-driving trucks is being shaped by today’s policy debates—not by advances in autonomous vehicle technology.

• Fall 2020

  “We Don’t Know What This Is Yet”

  Charles O. Holliday, William Kearney

  At Issues in Science and Technology we frequently speak with scientists and people doing public policy, but as the pandemic enters its seventh month, we wanted the perspective of someone in industry. … Read More

• September 16, 2020

  Who Believes in Hydroxychloroquine?

  David Adam

  There was a time when we journalists struggled to find meaty stories to cover during the late-summer doldrums. No longer. Amid the continuing deluge of pandemic news, scientists at Oxford University recently… Read More

• August 18, 2020

  A Patriot Act Moment for Science

  Tayyaba Jiwani

  As the world fights a historic pandemic, science has taken global center stage. Many governments made tough decisions following scientific advice, such as enforcing lockdowns and closing national borders, that ground the… Read More

• Summer 2020

  Save America’s Dying Cities

  Carl Schramm

  What accounts for the success and continued thriving of some cities, and the decline of others? During the decade when I ran the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, as we developed a data-based… Read More

• Summer 2020

  Complicating the Narrative

  Charles N. Herrick

  Recent books by David Michaels, an epidemiologist and former assistant secretary of labor at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard University, address the… Read More

• Spring 2020

  Getting to Zero—and Beyond

  Roger D. Aines, George Peridas

  In response to mounting concerns about the consequences of unabated climate change, California established in 2018 an aspirational goal of achieving a completely carbon-neutral economy by 2045, and becoming carbon negative after… Read More

• April 13, 2020

  Ramping Up R&D to Kickstart the Global Economy

  Bruce R. Guile

  COVID-19 has brought much of the global economy to a standstill. The now-inevitable global recession is like nothing we have experienced before. Governments and businesses are starting to understand that recovery from… Read More

• Fall 2018

  Fixing an Imperfect Labor Market Information System

  Sanjay E. Sarma, William B. Bonvillian

  Adam Smith explained that market economies operate through an “invisible hand,” but what was that hand? In 1945 Friedrich Hayek argued that a market is an information system, and the challenge facing… Read More

• Spring 2019

  Selling AI: The Case of Fully Autonomous Vehicles

  Diane E. Bailey, Ingrid Erickson

  In the past several years, an array of technologists, economists, and technology pundits have predicted that advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are poised to revolutionize our lives, changing how we work, play,… Read More

• Summer 2018

  Keeping the Lights On

  Kai N. Lee

  In September 2017, two hurricanes struck the US island of Puerto Rico, crippling its electric power grid. Because Puerto Rico is a major manufacturing site for medical supplies, the nation’s hospitals soon… Read More

• Fall 2018

  Research Universities and the Future of Work

  Mitchell L. Stevens

  Growing national concern about the future of work has three main causes. The first is technological: astonishingly rapid advances in artificial intelligence and the accompanying likelihood that it will supplant human tasks… Read More

• Fall 2018

  Rethinking the Race Between Education & Technology

  Ewart Keep, Phillip Brown

  Technological innovation is changing the nature of many jobs and the qualifications employers seek in their workers, convincing more young people to pursue a college education and other postsecondary credentials—at least according… Read More

• Fall 2018

  Overdetermined

  Kevin Finneran

  Widespread anxiety about the future nature of work, the number of jobs that will be available, the skills that will be needed, and the salaries they will command has roots in many… Read More

• July 26, 2018

  Self-Driving Vehicles for Your Shopping Trips

  Tom Burroughs

  Waymo, a company fast-forwarding the development of self-driving vehicles, just launched a trial program in the Phoenix area to team up with Walmart and four other firms to transport people between their… Read More

• 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

  Donald Trump’s Voters and the Decline of American Manufacturing

  William B. Bonvillian

  Who are Donald Trump’s voters? What do they want? Observers call them angry, but anger has root causes and grievances. A December 2015 Washington Post-ABC News poll tells what we already… Read More

• Winter 2017

  Infrastructure and Democracy

  Christopher Jones, David Reinecke

  The recent bitterly contested election revealed little common ground between the major parties. Yet President-elect Donald Trump and his opponent Hillary Clinton had at least one shared priority: both agreed that America’s… Read More

• Winter 2017

  Forum – Winter 2017

  Anthony P. Carnevale, Jody A. Roberts, Jennifer Kuzma, Christina Peña, Michael J. Handel, Bernard D. Goldstein, Judith Reppy, Megan J. Palmer, David A. Relman, Qin Zhu, Richard Olson, Jim Salzman

  Needed: better labor market data In “Better Jobs Information Benefits Everyone” (Issues, Fall 2016), Andrew Reamer ably describes recent progress in building longitudinal market data systems. But as he notes,… Read More

• Fall 2016

  A Second Act for Risk-Based Chemicals Regulation

  Keith B. Belton, James W. Conrad Jr.

  The Toxic Substances Control Act amendments put risk assessment at center stage. How will it perform? At a time when partisan squabbles and election-year politics dominate the headlines, Congress did something remarkable… Read More

• Fall 2016

  Not ’Til the Fat Lady Sings: TSCA’s Next Act

  David Goldston

  The newly enacted revision to the failed chemical safety law marks a rare recent example of bipartisanship, but whether it will lead to improved environmental protection remains to be seen. When President… Read More

• Winter 2015

  Closing the Energy-Demonstration Gap

  Richard K. Lester, David M. Hart

  A regional approach to demonstrating the commercial potential of major new energy technologies would open up new opportunities for accelerating innovation. The high costs and risks of demonstrating new clean energy technologies… Read More

• Spring 2016

  The Rise of the Platform Economy

  Martin Kenney, John Zysman

  A digital platform economy is emerging. Companies such as Amazon, Etsy, Facebook, Google, Salesforce, and Uber are creating online structures that enable a wide range of human activities. This opens the way… Read More

• Winter 2016

  A Policy Experiment is Worth a Million Lives

  Lynn T. Kozlowski

  Smoking cigarettes is a public health disaster in the United States and the rest of the world. Every year, around 500,000 smokers die prematurely, and the Surgeon General considers smoking the single… Read More

• Fall 2014

  No Time for Pessimism about Electric Cars

  John D. Graham, Joshua Cisney, Sanya Carley, John Rupp

  The national push to adopt electric cars should be sustained until at least 2017, when a review of fed auto policies is scheduled. A distinctive feature of U.S. energy and environmental policy… Read More

• Summer 2014

  What Fish Oil Pills Are Hiding

  David Schleifer, Alison Fairbrother

  DAVID SCHLEIFER ALISON FAIRBROTHER One Woman’s Quest to Save the Chesapeake Bay from the Dietary Supplement Industry Julie Vanderslice thought fish were disgusting. She didn’t like to look at them. She didn’t… Read More

• Fall 2010

  Is the Smart Grid Really a Smart Idea?

  Marc Levinson

  It is hard to quarrel with the idea that it is good to be smart. That presumably is why the proponents of some radical changes in the design of the U.S. electrical… Read More