On August 11th, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill barring grand juries from deciding on charges in cases involving police use of lethal force.  The thinking behind the bill was that grad juries are often “shrouded in scerecy” and enable prosecutors to escape accountability to the public.

published Oct 1, 2017, 5:00:09 PM, by Mark Buchanan (Bloomberg View) —Economists are famously bad at predicting growth. A new technique might help them get a little better. When assessing a country’s potential to prosper, economists typically look at aggregate measures such as education, investment or national debt. This hasn’t