Topic: Cass Sunstein

The Monitor's View: Are gun politics too complex? Simplicity would help.

As the Newtown families plead for Congress to act, lawmakers – and President Obama – admit to the complexity of gun issues. Scholars on simplicity offer some ideas.

15 promising nonfiction books for spring 2013

April showers bring May flowers. Here's some fresh non-fiction to check out this spring while you enjoy the new greenery.

Opinion: On the lookout for simple solutions, like cloth diapers

I make a note of simple solutions when I spot them in books or articles. Especially ones that are right in front of our faces. Here are simple solutions to five problems: diapers, energy waste, insufficient retirement savings, archiving of old books, and that perennial, partisanship.

What cafeterias can teach us about economics

What foods are offered and how they're arranged provide a surprising microcosm of the market.

What's cooler than a child-care tax credit? Obama's opt-out IRA.

The child-care tax credit would increase, but an opt-out IRA is both one of the most interesting and least controversial of Obama's middle-class aid proposals.

Recession, foreclosure, blight: It's a good time to be a city rat!

Down-at-the-heels cities, plagued by recession, at risk of rat invasion, study finds.

Cass Sunstein latest target for the anti-‘czar’ bunch

Obama speech to kids touches on the dangers of.... Facebook?

AP photo of dying Marine draws fire from Pentagon

Gibbs: Resistance to Obama school speech just plain 'silly'

Obama school speech suddenly a prickly topic for educators

Opinion: Five questions for Sotomayor

GOP senators should probe her views on key Supreme Court decisions.

Supreme Court’s future may hinge on election

The next president is expected to name at least one new justice to the closely divided court.

Queen Rania takes to Web to break stereotypes of Arabs

Jordan's first lady launched a YouTube page in March to begin a dialogue between Arabs and Westerners.

In Britain, Brown's take on organ donation boosts new credo

Libertarian paternalism – 'framing' choices for people, but letting them opt out – is gaining traction among US and European leaders.