A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a ...

24 April 2025 - Economic insecurity, staggering levels of inequality, declining social trust and social fragmentation are destabilizing societies worldwide. The World Social Report 2025, released ...

While those may appear to be useful metrics, they create a dangerous illusion—that war can be understood through numbers alone. Clausewitz would caution us to start somewhere else entirely: with the ...

Cuba needs “neither foreign rescue nor another official mythology. It needs the space and the institutions to rebuild itself,” writes Ricardo Torres.

In Michigan, you need a license to cut hair, roof a house or operate a polygraph machine. But you need no training at all to write the laws that govern those professions. Elected officials make ...

April is National Financial Literacy Month, when the federal government and many states encourage citizens to become more financially literate. Unfortunately, many today lack a basic knowledge of ...

For decades, the economics establishment generally agreed on a simple answer: Embrace free markets and avoid “industrial policy”—state-led efforts to shape what an economy produces—at all costs. No ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... This headline captures President Donald Trump and the Republicans’ midterm election problems in a nutshell: Inflation in March hit its ...

During a Tuesday, March 31 appearance on MS NOW host Ari Melber's show "The Beat," liberal economist Paul Krugman delivered some bad news about gas prices —which, he warned, are going to get even ...

Financial literacy deserves more attention in our schools, but not at the expense of economics, and not as a substitute for it (“Students Prepare for Real World With Personal Finance Classes,” ...

BEIJING — China has set an economic growth target of 4.5% to 5% for this year, a slight decrease in the face of a prolonged property slump and other headwinds and uncertainty abroad. The target was ...