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Why Switching to Electric Vehicles Improves National Security, the Environment, and Our Economy
Post date:My decision to purchase an electric car was driven by a variety of reasons, but the simplest reason was this: The cost of filling up with gas is just too much. Not just the price at the pump, but also the cost to our future generations, our national s...
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RAND on Katrina's Wake
Post date:RAND is out with a study that's critical of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and a Louisiana Recovery Authority for failing to successfully help people living in FEMA trailers.
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India
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India's Impact -- Lecture Tonight @ RAND
Post date:Krishna Kumar, RAND's senior economist, lectures, free-of-charge, this evening in Santa Monica about, "Mumbai Rising? The Implications of India's Economic Rise for the United States"
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Mexico
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RAND on U.S.-Mexico Relationship
Post date:Authors from the RAND Corporation are out this week with a new paperbook book titled, United States and Mexico: Ties That Bind, Issues That Divide.
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If California Legalized Pot...
Post date:The think tank is out with a new study that finds that if California legalized marijuana, then use would increase, cost would decrease, and tax revenues might be $1.4 billion.
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transportation
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Transportation's Fossil Fuel Tax Paradox
Post date:The more gas drivers purchase at the pump, the more fuel tax revenue federal and state governments collect. At the same time, government policies encourage less gas use. RAND's Martin Wachs explains.
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Friday: Matt Miller at RAND
Post date:Politicians are fighting a previous economic war, instead of the one upon us and the ones coming soon. That's the word from public intellectual, author, and radio host Matt Miller.
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Joint Chiefs Chairman at RAND
Post date:The Admiral was scheduled to deliver the commencement address to the 63 Ph.D and masters students graduating from the think tank's Pardee Rand Graduate School.
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U.S. Safer, Says RAND Terrorism Expert
Post date:The U.S. is less at risk from terrorism today than the country was on September 11, 2001, according to RAND's Brian Michael Jenkins.
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health care
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RAND: Small Soda Tax Not Useful
Post date:A new RAND study released this week finds that adding a small tax to soda purchases isn't a health panacea.
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L.A. Expert: Has America Lost Its Mojo?
Post date:According to a Senior Fellow at the Center for Economic Progress, the answer remains 'no'. At least in the long run.
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RAND Corporation
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Air Pollution Hurts You & Your Wallet
Post date:A RAND study has calculated that local air pollution costs SoCal residents almost $100M per year in medical-related fees. And you thought smog was no longer a problem?
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RAND on Iraq Withdrawal
Post date:RAND releases a report discussing the potential repercussions of Iraqi withdrawal, and suggests a variety of ways to increase cooperation between the two countries.
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RAND Corporation
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World's Top Think Tanks
Post date:There are, according to McGann and co., 6,305 think tanks in the world, housed in 169 countries.
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RAND Corporation
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Meet Prometheus
Post date:"We want to reach out to those people and explain that policy is something of interest to more than just experts." -- Matt Harrison
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RAND Corporation
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RAND Talks Terrorism
Post date:Earlier this month, RAND's Kim Cragin gave a presentation to a Congressional panel entitled "Understanding Terrorist Motivations."
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reason
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Think Tank Videos Aplenty
Post date:See: Eric Schmidt, Craig Venter, and Muhammad Yunus; Bill Patzert and Josh Willis, Robert Blackwill, and the Reason online staff.
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RAND Corporation
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Meeting Comic Book Makers in Jordan
Post date:"He was severely wounded, he still has a scar on his neck. So the way this guy dealt with it was he started to give talks in high schools and other places about trying to improve, intercultural understanding and relations"
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RAND Corporation
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Can Governments Become More Democratic?
Post date:So, will these governments in the region take it to a second point, be able to enact these kinds of reforms without being overturned? Absolutely, they already started to do it.
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RAND Corporation
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Is Middle Eastern Democracy Flowering?
Post date:"The effect of, of the Iraq War has been very negative in terms of moving forward with political reform in this region." - RAND's Dalia Dassa Kaye