Later this week here at THB I’ll be publishing two important pieces — one a guest post from a climate scientist on how his ...

It would a threat to our prosperity if the Department of Commerce reported suspect trade and investment data but, if it happens, we can check Eurostat and Canada’s trade numbers. Data falsification ...

The people we live near have long been the first line of support during a crisis, the ones we lean on when institutions falter. But that foundational sense of mutual reliance is fraying.

Wisconsin’s 2025-2027 biennial budget includes several provisions aimed at improving the affordability of childcare in the Badger state, ending the misguided effort to directly support private ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will reduce federal spending for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $186.7 billion over ...

Kent’s career in higher education policy renders him ideally suited to confront the unique challenges the Department of Education faces today.

The Supreme Court is not threatening the Federal Reserve’s independence. In fact, the justices keep telling us the very opposite.

The idea of digital “superintelligence” makes for intriguing symposium fodder. Yet few participants managed to define it. Zuckerberg himself offered more poetry than precision in his note—imagining AI ...

As these AI tools continue to evolve, economists and policy analysts who master prompt engineering and integrate these technologies into their workflows will find themselves better equipped to tackle ...

Much gerrymandering is not aimed at maximizing partisan advantage but at protecting incumbents. This is just another instance of an iron rule of politics: People in power use their power to remain ...

The reactions to the DOE Climate Working Group (CWG) report released last week have been just as interesting as the report itself. The degree of vitriol and freak-out by activist climate scientists ...