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 ...

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 ...

Chinese chip manufacturing has attracted much attention in the West, but Beijing’s industrial policy has also placed it in the lead of other electronics component manufacturing. The West risks ...

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 ...

A new forecast from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reveals the scale of the fiscal challenge that the second Trump administration has inherited from its predecessors, including Trump 1.0 ...

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 ...

Devotees of Aeschylus, Sophocles or Dreiser will understand this book. With the relentlessness of a Greek tragedy, the story of this Resettlement Administration project . . . moves forward from ...

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 ...

As he prepares to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump says he will continue to send U.S. weapons to Kyiv. “I want to reach an agreement, and the only way you’re going to ...

Pollsters have been busy in recent weeks laying a public opinion foundation for Donald Trump’s second term. The new data support a truism: Americans aren’t ideologues. They want significant ...