Making Sen$e Columnist

Column: What we need to do to prevent food shortages on a global scale

By Vikram Mansharamani

In the coming decades, we’ll need to produce a lot more food or expect to see shortages on a global scale.

Column: Why different viewpoints lead us to the best solutions

By Vikram Mansharamani

Bringing different points of view to the table turbocharges problem solving, as the results of science and innovation competitions attest.

Column: The danger that could devastate our electrical grid

By Vikram Mansharamani

Spending now on infrastructure upgrades could save us from re-entering the dark ages.

The yen is rising. What happens if Japan tries to push its currency down?

By Benn Steil, Emma Smith

Faced with a strong yen, Japan might look to manipulate its currency. Here's what might happen if the country decides to do so.

Will business imperatives drive gender parity?

By Vikram Mansharamani

Achieving gender equality would unleash tremendous economic gains, potentially adding $4.3 trillion to America’s GDP by 2025.

Column: 5 ways you can help America on Independence Day

By Jim Stone

As we listen to election candidates and politicians try to tell us all the answers, we should remind ourselves this July 4th that we as citizens can identify solutions to America’s biggest problems with our own independent judgment and common sense.

Column: What’s behind these big merger deal busts?

By Ben Gomes-Casseres

Anti-trust authorities have been active of late: several big merger deals have been stopped dead in their tracks.

Column: Forget the white picket fence, the American Dream is in the city

By Vikram Mansharamani

The suburbs still offer a great deal, but there’s a powerful countertrend that is increasingly hard to ignore: a renaissance in cities.

Column: Working parents have two jobs — and both are important to the economy

By Denise Cummins

It’s time we acknowledge that working parents have two jobs — the one at work and the one at home — and both are equally important to our economy.

Column: Trump’s policies would massively increase the national debt

By Maya MacGuineas

It’s four months until Election Day, and neither of the presumptive nominees of the two major parties has a plan to reverse the growth of our record-high national debt.