Too many school boards act as if their job is to “support” the superintendent and staff—offering encouragement and deference, not impartial oversight.

The FTC’s use of antitrust law—real or threatened—to change platforms’ content-moderation decisions confronts important First Amendment principles about editorial discretion, compelled speech, ...

Artificial intelligence stocks are on a historic bull run, but the so far rally owes more to spreadsheets than science fiction. The run-up in valuations is still grounded in strong profits and ...

Reactions to Beijing’s announcement and Trump’s tariff barking focused on the short-term. His reversal was also due to short-term concerns, in particular stocks. But the very serious problem is in the ...

Good harvests, disruptions to international trade, and demand shifts have reduced recent and forecast prices for several important farm commodities, but other commodities continue to fare reasonably ...

"Stablecoins—a new digital currency—present problems for Congress’s constitutional duty to regulate the coinage of money." ...

If universities hope to reclaim their essential role, they must lead again: speaking when silence tempts, teaching when slogans seduce, and remembering that genuine neutrality isn't the absence of ...

Instead, the US has turned dovish. With import tariffs and market access capped by Chinese resistance, Trump switched to trying to cut the trade deficit by giving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

To many Americans, especially of a certain age, manufacturing remains the beating heart of the US economy. The sector supplies steady jobs for people without college degrees, not to mention ...

The collapse of community and the crisis of belonging comprise the biggest stories of the past 50 years. In 2000, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community sounded the siren on ...

The 340B drug discount program has followed a familiar health policy trajectory. An intervention that was supposed to ease cost pressures, it instead is producing cascading unintended consequences ...