New pressures from outside of the academy have provoked a long-deferred reckoning with the overlapping crises of the American University.

If Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh thinks he has a difficult inflation challenge with Trump breathing down his neck for lower interest rates, he should spare a thought for Christine Lagarde, the ...

The Congressional Budget Office released its new long-term projections for Social Security’s finances. Surprisingly, the CBO found that Social Security’s 75-year shortfall declined, from 4.71% to 4.55 ...

Last week, I sat at the New School, listening to the Mannes Orchestra play Charles Ives’s Variations on “America.” It opened the new Center for the American Experience, on whose advisory board I serve ...

Mounting evidence presages a change in China’s AI strategy. Ever since Premier Li Qiang proposed China’s “AI Plus” initiative in 2024, Beijing has generally treated AI as a normal technology and ...

Being early is the same as being wrong. It’s a Wall Street adage worth keeping in mind when evaluating extravagant claims about the potential economic impact of artificial intelligence. Caution is ...

Troubles seem to be coming to the eurozone economy not as single spies but in battalions. These troubles include an Iranian-induced energy price shock, an onslaught of Chinese exports in the form of ...

There is an unlikely figure who might have saved American schools a great deal of time and trouble teaching children to read over the past half century: the legendary physicist Richard Feynman. In a ...

Indian policymakers and analysts frequently blame the external environment for economic problems, the dramatic US-Iran war being only the most recent example. In fact, the Indian economy has not ...

Europe is warming: ~0.5°C per decade since the 1980s. Figure 1 shows the continent’s annual count of days since 1950 with “strong heat stress” — a feels-like temperature of 32°C or higher. The trend ...