Based on analysis of a historical dataset created during the 1930s that captured the life stories of thousands of older Americans, researchers offer a reminder that work isn’t just about income but ...

A new forecast from the Congressional Budget Office reveals the scale of the fiscal challenge that the second Trump administration has inherited from its predecessors. Amid much talk about the problem ...

The prism through which you view the Iranian/Hamas war on Israel is critically important. As a strategic matter of American or Israeli national security interests, we can have one view or another. But ...

In many high-income democracies, the explosion of public borrowing over the past two decades has made it clear enough that a budgetary course correction is required, especially when analysis is ...

“A has power over B,” said the political scientist Robert Dahl, “to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do.” In Washington’s new power equation, “A ...

We should never take economic growth for granted. As Oxford University economist Daniel Susskind writes in his 2024 book, Growth: A History and a Reckoning, “Three facts, simple but remarkable, have ...

Global production of six major crops has dramatically increased between 1961 and 2022, largely because of advances in agricultural research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. However, ill-advised ...

Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) introduced the Family First Act. This bill would significantly increase the Child Tax Credit (CTC), modify or eliminate other family tax provisions, and make the cap on the ...

Last year, on social-media accounts with names like Ballerina Farm, and in online magazines such as Evie, a new type of woman emerged to bedevil cultural observers: the “tradwife.” Depending ...

Farm interest groups are deeply concerned that unilateral actions by the new Trump adminis­tration to substantially increase tariffs on all or many imports from major trading partners could harm ...