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 ...

Child maltreatment is what is known as a “wicked problem” –complex and difficult to resolve because it is so intertwined with a variety of intractable societal ills. Each year in the United States, ...

The Iran conflict obviously resists simple solutions. The war should not be treated as a conventional policy or military problem, but as a “wicked problem” in which the system continually changes in ...

WILLMAR, Minn. — The problems, they are told, are wicked. Wicked problems are difficult and tricky, with complex solutions, with lots of built-in disagreements. They're the type of problems that fuel ...