The reckoning is here. The UC San Diego report is a warning about the consequences of a decade of magical thinking in education policy and practice. We replaced rigor with rhetoric, and the bill has ...

As projected emissions fall, achievements once seen as climate progress are now being recast as signs of impending catastrophe ...

The value of China’s overseas investment and construction combined since 2005 has passed $2.5 trillion. The investment recovery that began after the end of zero-Covid stalled in 2024 but construction ...

Study time for full-time students at four-year colleges in the United States fell from twenty-four hours per week in 1961 to fourteen hours per week in 2003, and the decline is not explained by ...

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Shane Tews meets with Matt Reeder to discuss Bluesky Social's values of decentralization, portability, and more.

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The US agricultural sector—especially farms producing labor-intensive crops such as fruits, vegetables, and horticultural products—relies on unauthorized immigrants to perform many seasonal and ...

October marks the 20th anniversary of “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life,” the extraordinarily influential and controversial book by AEI scholar Charles Murray and ...

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 ...

Housing markets are inherently local and national data can obfuscate important local trends. While some metros continue to benefit from tailwinds in the form of lower home prices, growing economies or ...

Over the past decade, many electronics firms have talked about diversifying their supply chains. An analysis of Apple—America’s biggest consumer electronics firm—illustrates that most of their ...