Every month, the jobs report is reduced to two numbers: how many jobs the economy added and whether the unemployment rate went up or down. If payrolls rise and unemployment falls, the labor market is declared strong. If unemployment rises,…
Orbits and racetracks have something fundamental in common. Yes, one’s celestial and the other’s terrestrial, populated by spaceships and satellites versus race cars. But both environments are also wildly unforgiving places: On racetracks, cars must withstand heat, collisions, and relentless…
Good morning. How dire is America’s fiscal outlook? When I met with MassMutual CEO Roger Crandall yesterday, he framed the problem with a startling statistic: “Ten dollars a day. That’s how much your share of the U.S. debt is going…
It wasn’t too long ago that analog photography – which uses photographic film and chemical processing – was declared all but dead, relegated to the province of niche hobbyists and professional artists. Digital cameras had taken over nearly all areas…
Inside Fortune 500 boardrooms, chief marketing officers are grappling with a new and uncomfortable reality: the playbook they’ve relied on for decades no longer applies. As product discovery moves from search engines to AI-driven interfaces, CMOs are being forced to…
Even if you’ve never gone to an overnight summer camp, you can still conjure visions of these iconic American outdoor places, thanks to books like “Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great,” TV shows like “Salute Your Shorts,” and films like…
The absence of two key Senate Republicans has complicated the Trump administration’s ambitions to pass budget appropriations and increase defense spending, particularly as the war in Iran escalates and key midterm elections approach. On Sunday, Sen. Mitch McConnell broke his…
The U.S. announced a new round of strikes on Iran on Monday, hours after President Donald Trump said Washington is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and, in a seeming policy reversal, will charge other ships for safe passage. All…
Why has a college degree become akin to an unaffordable luxury for millions of Americans? I am a scholar of the history of higher education. My data analysis of college tuition trends from 1840 to 2020 shows that college tuition…
We are scholars of human rights. Alongside the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, a nonprofit that tracks how well more than 200 countries and territories are meeting the human rights commitments their governments have made, we annually update scores measuring whether…