U.S. colleges are losing their edge as cuts, high costs, fewer international students, and departing scholars weaken American universities.

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The new law attacks barriers to housing construction. The president still has enormous power to determine who can afford to own.

Big Oil is having a great year. After Trump promised to make fossil fuel executives’ dreams into reality if the industry funded his reelection, they responded by plowing $120 million of trackable ...

After huge polling misses in the Wisconsin and Michigan primaries, everyone should remember that polls are only snapshots.

The issue of a health care sector that relies on publicly subsidized higher education to train its workforce should not be simply reduced to a lack of high-minded private sector giving, but—given that ...

Trump’s OMB director wants to politicize federal grantmaking. His plan will undercut Congress, erode innovation, and waste taxpayer dollars.

Russia’s woes in Ukraine reflect its autocracy, corruption, and dismal choices. Sounds like the Pentagon under Pete Hegseth.

Campaign polls overstated progressive strength in Michigan and Hawaii. Tonight’s primaries will offer another test.

Public Policy Polling’s surveys have repeatedly come close to the results of 2026 Democratic primaries, even as other polls ...

Anthropic’s Project Panama is devouring old books for the human writing its technology is making increasingly hard to find.