What’s New: Global electricity demand, which saw a moderate increase in 2023, is expected to rise more sharply through 2026, driven by emerging economies and, reportedly, will be met entirely by ...

Five years ago, President Donald Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, stood all but alone against the Democratic drive for student loan forgiveness. The conventional wisdom at the time was ...

Editor’s note: This is the third annual assessment of the Salafi-jihadi movement. Last year’s assessment is available as “The State of al Qaeda and ISIS Around the World,” and September ...

As Generation Z is aging into adulthood, a plethora of stories have asserted that “Gen Z is the Least Religious Generation,” with some writers suggesting that this could be a net positive for ...

Last November, President Trump’s designated chair of his Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), Stephen Miran, published a lengthy paper entitled “A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global ...

Justice Louis D. Brandeis’s metaphor of the states as “laboratories” for policy experiments is perhaps the most familiar and clichéd image of federalism. Contrary to common belief, however ...

Recently, GOP Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance said on Face the Nation “We should expand the child tax credit… I’d love to see a child tax credit that’s $5,000 per child.” He further ...

The Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) sector has grown dramatically in a very short period of time. From November 2019 to April 2021, SEL spending grew by 45% to $765 million. It is likely to ...

The bar chart above is based on selected data from the table below the chart and shows the acceptance rates for US medical schools based on three different combinations of MCAT scores and GPA by ...

Here’s Tim Worstall writing in Forbes today (“Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Wrong Here – Just Paying Women More Won’t Close Gender Pay Gap“), emphasis added: The idea that we can close ...

Tomorrow is Earth Day 2022 and marks the 52nd anniversary of Earth Day, so it’s time for my annual CD post on the spectacularly wrong predictions that were made around the time of the first ...

Twenty-four House Republicans proposed a bill to strengthen work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) last week, continuing a long-running debate over work ...