In January 1976, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Buckley v. Valeo, a landmark decision on the extent to which the First Amendment’s free speech clause protects contributions to political ...

Who are the best college presidents? This table ranks more than 400 college and university presidents based on how much they increased access, affordability, and student success during their time as ...

“The Bell Curve” describes the state of scientific knowledge about questions that have been on people’s minds for years but have been considered too sensitive to talk about openly—among them, IQ’s ...

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As housing affordability dominates national headlines, policymakers from the White House to Capitol Hill are scrambling for answers—but focusing on rising prices alone obscures the deeper problem: an ...

Across the country, child welfare systems are struggling to find placements for children and youth in foster care—especially those who are older and have higher levels of need. While bed shortages ...

Over the past decade, many electronics firms have talked about diversifying their supply chains. An analysis of Apple—America’s biggest consumer electronics firm—illustrates that most of their ...

It is often difficult—and in many situations seemingly impossible—for the major US political parties to find common ground. However, many members of Congress agree on one issue, regardless of their ...

The standard portrayals of economic life for ordinary Americans and their families paint a picture of stagnancy, even decline, amidst rising income inequality or joblessness. But rarely does the ...

The Donald Trump era has scrambled the relationship between partisanship and many of the most important social axes of American life—class, gender, region, and now even race and ethnicity. Since 2016, ...

Study time for full-time students at four-year colleges in the United States fell from twenty-four hours per week in 1961 to fourteen hours per week in 2003, and the decline is not explained by ...

Doomers on the political left and right agree that economic growth has failed to translate into higher wages for American workers, with some claiming that pay has barely risen in 50 years. Such ...