The Golden Gate Bridge tops the U.S. list. The towers of the span slice through the fog above San Francisco Bay—and they’re painted a shade known as “International Orange” that’s highly visible even ...

What would the antebellum American economy have looked like without slavery? Using new micro-data on the U.S. economy in 1860, we document that where free and enslaved workers live and how much they ...

The caveats, up front: Everyone makes mistakes and there are a lot of states, more than 40. And before you criticize the political site Politico for not labelling every single state right on the cover ...

Instead of making people fear Spanish at the Super Bowl, maybe spend this NFL season learning something beyond “gracias.” ...

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Awhile back, I hired an amiable local kid to help me move some boxes, explaining that my husband was in Saudi Arabia. My teen helper’s brow puckered for a moment before he inquired, “Is that near ...

In a forthcoming paper in AEI’s Affording Defense project, I argue that the US nuclear force structure requires enhanced strike capacity, flexibility, and selectivity. Enhanced strike capacity due to ...

Nearly half of respondents in a recent survey said that shutdown firings of federal employees would harm their communities.