Thanksgiving is a time of unexpected holiday travel, but Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) had no idea that he would spend Monday sitting ...

USAID funding supported efforts to eradicate tuberculosis in India, one of the country’s deadliest diseases. Now, that money ...

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Shoaib Mir is an independent journalist based out of India, with a focus on South Asia. He covers climate change, health, the ...

Extreme weather and changes in seasonal patterns are fundamentally altering the landscape, in cities and in farming communities. You’re going to pay for it.

How unemployment in the Trump era shapes Black women’s lives when maternal care and food choices are in the mix ...

The American Economic Association banned him for life. Given how wrong Summers has been in every major area of policy advice, why did his public disgrace require the Epstein files rather than a ...

Regulatory capture is at the root of the affordability crisis in electricity. Public power could offer a way out.

We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past.

The buck stops there, not here’ tradition of exonerating higher-ups at the expense of those further down the chain of command ...

Investment in new technology always needs startup financing, and if AI is truly God in the machine, wide adoption will pay off over time. But that isn’t materializing, at least not yet.

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