RAND Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, Fall 2012

The cover story focuses on nine key issues in the 2012 U.S. presidential election—income inequality, health care costs, immigration reform, energy options, education, al Qaeda, Iraq, democratization in the Middle East, and China—while other stories cover the California court system, calorie counting, a National Guard program for high school dropouts, Americans’ banking habits, and elections taking place this year around the world.