“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...
In April, I recorded an interview of almost two and a half hours with Sam Harris for his Waking Up podcast which, I learned only after I had done it, regularly attracts a few million listeners. We ...
The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...
Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...
Wars have a way of killing half-truths and lazy cliches. The present conflict in the Middle East is exploding the persistent myth that President Donald Trump’s America is withdrawing from the world.
Students are not the only ones who enjoyed a reprieve during the nearly five-year pause on federal student loan payments. Colleges also got a break from a rule that bars them from the federal student ...
Spend any time working in education—either in K–12 schools or universities—and before long you will come across the concept of “transferable skills.” These are skills such as creativity, collaboration ...
Work has long been viewed as a critical pathway out of poverty. Therefore, it is important to understand the effects of federal safety-net programs—designed to alleviate poverty and promote economic ...
What do the companies in these three groups have in common? Group A: American Motors, Brown Shoe, Studebaker, Collins Radio, Detroit Steel, Zenith Electronics and National Sugar Refining. Group B: ...
President Donald Trump has set forth an ambitious plan to reform the federal approach to immigration policy and enforcement. This plan can broadly be categorized into two overarching goals: (1) to ...
It seems so simple. The 1950s was a decade of high economic growth and high tax rates. So why not go back to those tax rates and also return to an economic Golden Age? Higher taxes would, ...
The Hippocratic Oath is coming for higher education. Last week, Senate Republicans released a package of higher education reforms that includes a “do no harm” standard for colleges: Degree programs ...