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 ...

Myth: Most low-income children live in apartments. Market Reality: Nine out of ten children in low-income renting households live in homes with at least two bedrooms, and about two-thirds of these ...

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 ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s D.C. itinerary includes a stop at the National Archives with President Trump. Here’s hoping they visit the Rotunda, where the Charters of Freedom are on permanent ...

Congressional Democrats keep choosing lawfare over dialogue. It hasn’t worked yet. As the 2025 New York mayoral election played out, President Donald Trump blasted Zohran Mamdani as a “100% Communist ...