Average US student assessment scores appear to tell a simple story: Performance rose through the 2000s, plateaued during the 2010s, and then declined sharply during the pandemic. But looking beyond ...

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 Trump “Day One” executive orders on energy and environment policies are worthy of applause. At the same time, two of the executive orders are problematic: the exit from the Paris climate agreement ...

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 ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump ordered a wholesale change in the federal government’s immigration policies. Trump declared that almost four years of unrestricted and illegal ...

As in a more delirious version of Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day, Donald Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord on his first day in office, again. In a thinly-veiled attempt to mend Beijing ...

America’s TikTok saga — the drama over whether the popular video-sharing app will be banned or saved — has many intriguing dimensions. It involves questions about free speech, privacy and ...

In an interview in October 2024, Donald Trump mused, “To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff. And it’s my favorite word. It needs a public relations firm to help it.” ...

At first glance, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Russell Kirk do not have all that much in common. Yet it is striking that King and Kirk converged on certain first principles that rightfully mark ...

Even before he took office, President Donald Trump was already securing major policy wins. Trump’s election induced the Biden administration to withdraw two pending regulations that would have ...