The authors examine the impact of the transition to low-carbon energy on Texas K-12 education funding.

In this paper for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, fellows Jorge Barro and John W. Diamond examine the history behind Texas’ property tax system, recent attempts to reduce the growing magnitude of the property tax burden, and the economic effects of two options for eliminating the school maintenance and operations (M&O) property tax: https://bit.ly/2zIZRZy 

This study uses a dynamic equilibrium model to project the long-term economic impact of the corporate tax cuts.

The invocation of sectarianism as a category of analysis for understanding the Middle East is misleading. It conflates a religious identification with a political one, and it ignores the kinship, class and national and regional networks within which sectarian self-expression has invariably been enmeshed. What is urgently needed is a new research agenda to study the dialectic — the complex, constant and unequal relationship between local and foreign — that makes up the modern Middle East.

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Abstract

The study of terrorism strives to…

Introduction: What We Seek to Achieve¹

As the situation in the borderlands becomes more dire, there have been—and will…