This article is an adapted transcript from a talk given on October 10, 2025 (updated, October 28, 2025) for Economics for ...

This summer, employees at several big defense companies went on strike. Their grievances highlight a much larger problem brewing beneath the surface.

The share of Americans with a bachelor’s degree has been going up for years. That’s about to change, if politicians get their ...

The tech giants behind the AI boom have become too big to fail and are using their position to mount an assault on labor.

Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a ...

President Donald Trump’s sweeping crackdown on immigration is throwing foreigners out of work and shaking the American ...

A USDA proposal would require grocers participating in CalFresh to more than double the number of staple goods they carry, and a larger number of those staples must be perishable items. Getty Images ...

Letters Editor's Note: It was a mixed bag but war and peace seemed to dominanate the conversations coming from our letter writers this week. By war, I mean the president's use of military here at home ...

Early this fall, Germany's leader Friedrich Merz assured a group of reporters in Duesseldorf that his country was "not at war." Merz was speaking about what he characterized as Russia's repeated ...