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- Can we restore civility to Washington policy debates?
In many policy debates, the discussion has shifted from criticizing ideas to questioning motives. Can policymakers find their way back to civility?
- Think technology is disrupting the job market like never before? Think again.
A new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation analyzes the US labor market from 1850 to the present and finds that we are in an era of unprecedented calm. And that's not good.
- Commentary: Is the Endangered Species Act facing extinction?
Before we overhaul the Endangered Species Act, we should better understand what it means to deliberately allow a species to go extinct.
- Why we need international students
Inviting foreign students to study in the United States doesn't just create jobs, it also brings in perspectives that can help the United States solve complex global challenges.
- What should Trump's manufacturing strategy look like?
To improve US industries' ability to compete abroad, the Trump administration will have to do more than promote low-wage domestic manufacturing jobs.
- How yesterday's industrial workplaces are becoming today's data centers
Factories, mines, printing press buildings, bakeries, and other icons of 20th century industrial activity are now being adapted to the information age.
- Guaranteed basic income for all: An idea whose time has come?
The idea that the state should provide all of its citizens with money to sustain a basic cost of living has gained traction across the political spectrum. Will it soon break into the mainstream?
- This lunch-companion app can help burst your political bubble
Connect, a service that helps people of different ideological, socioeconomic, or demographic backgrounds, arrange face-to-face meetings.
- How news sites' online comments help fuel hatred
Online news outlets and social networks share responsibility for letting hateful messages fester in their comment spaces, contributing to further degenerating our politics.
- The neoliberal consensus is crumbling. What happens next?
The dominant economic model of the West for the past seven decades faces challenges from both the left and the right. Will the neoliberal narrative be replaced by one that aims to create more than just market value?
- Is the media contributing to global inequality?
As more media outlets fall under the control of a shrinking number of private owners, opportunities for ordinary people around the globe to participate and produce media are under threat.
- Opposing neoliberalism without right-wing populism: A Latin American guide
Many observers see the rise in right-wing populism as a backlash against three decades of neoliberalism, but is racist, chauvinistic, nationalism, the only coherent response?
- Confusion about job creation is obscuring America's productivity crisis
Illogical thinking about jobs – and the misguided policies that stem from it – stand in the way of focusing on America's most pressing economic problem: our slowest-ever growth in productivity.
- Democrats would do well to focus on economic growth, not redistribution
To win back Trump voters, Democrats should jettison so-called middle-out economics, and instead embrace a philosophy of growth.
- Why many in Ukraine oppose a ‘land for peace’ formula to end the war
- Howard University hoped to make history. Now it’s ready for a different role.
- In the race to attract students, historically Black colleges sprint out front
- ‘I’m exhausted by him.’ Why Trump resistance is fizzling.
- Cover StoryMoody chickens? Playful bumblebees? Science decodes the rich inner lives of animals.