Picture this heavyweight prize-fight match up: engineering’s logical and rational approach to problem solving versus the sometimes-street brawling style of public policy development. Put the two in a ...

Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs at the National Academy of Engineering. His new book is Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W.W.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stephan Manning, University of Sussex and Juliane Reinecke, King's College London; ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Paris climate agreement is another example of an attempted grand solution to a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The lawsuit alleges violations of Gabriele’s constitutional rights, including claims ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Police said inappropriate images were found on a tablet seized during a December 2024 ...