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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Supporting Ukraine to victory against Russia is in the best interest of the United States. A world in which Russia prevails would be more dangerous and more expensive for America—requiring an ...

A comprehensive, insightful assessment of the profound military, economic, political, and security implications of the Ukraine conflict, a war with far-reaching consequences for Europe and 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 ...

This essay is adapted from Hal Brands’ new book, The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World. “Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from ...