The race to select the next United Nations secretary-general has been accelerating throughout the year. It started with the UN General Assembly conducting interactive dialogues and a town hall with ...

Healthcare premiums in 2027 for employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) are going up once again at an exceptionally elevated rate. As has been the case in all the years since the COVID-19 pandemic ...

In July, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner released the first report evaluating survey evidence of changing attitudes and behaviors attributable to the country’s social media under-16 age restriction ...

In 2006, the US government made a deal with the nation’s graduate schools: Charge whatever you like, and we’ll give your students a loan to fund it. Unsurprisingly, many universities took them up on ...

In the months after problems in the subprime loan market surfaced in March 2008 and Bear Stearns collapsed, financial markets ignored the early warning signs of unfolding financial system trouble.

In two recent reports, we found substantial differences between high school students who do and do not participate in varsity high school sports and large attendance advantages for varsity athletes ...

Last week, the separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) won a provincial election after a lengthy hiatus out of power. The new distribution of seats in Quebec’s legislative assembly looks like this. As viewers ...

The Treasury Department will release the official tally for fiscal year 2026 later this month, but the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has provided a useful early look that is likely to be close to ...

Europe is warming: ~0.5°C per decade since the 1980s. Figure 1 shows the continent’s annual count of days since 1950 with “strong heat stress” — a feels-like temperature of 32°C or higher. The trend ...

In 2026, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) most recent estimates, US farmers and ranchers will receive about $55 billion in federal subsidies. A substantial share of these outlays ...

Last month, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated that the war in Iran had cost the U.S. Treasury $12.7 billion over the first 12 days of the war.1 If we project that daily cost ...