Average US student assessment scores appear to tell a simple story: Performance rose through the 2000s, plateaued during the 2010s, and then declined sharply during the pandemic. But looking beyond ...

Based on analysis of a historical dataset created during the 1930s that captured the life stories of thousands of older Americans, researchers offer a reminder that work isn’t just about income but ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump ordered a wholesale change in the federal government’s immigration policies. Trump declared that almost four years of unrestricted and illegal ...

Pollsters have been busy in recent weeks laying a public opinion foundation for Donald Trump’s second term. The new data support a truism: Americans aren’t ideologues. They want significant ...

Chinese chip manufacturing has attracted much attention in the West, but Beijing’s industrial policy has also placed it in the lead of other electronics component manufacturing. The West risks ...

A new forecast from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reveals the scale of the fiscal challenge that the second Trump administration has inherited from its predecessors, including Trump 1.0 ...

Supporting Ukraine to victory against Russia is in the best interest of the United States. A world in which Russia prevails would be more dangerous and more expensive for America—requiring an ...

Since our nation’s founding, American Catholics have confronted the question of whether one can be a faithful Catholic and a devoted citizen of the United States. Most Catholic citizens ...

This essay is adapted from Hal Brands’ new book, The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World. “Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from ...

Last year, on social-media accounts with names like Ballerina Farm, and in online magazines such as Evie, a new type of woman emerged to bedevil cultural observers: the “tradwife.” Depending ...

Many who follow Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have come to the same conclusion: Russia can defeat Ukraine with its “incredible” strength. However, Russia is much weaker than even many in the ...