Vietnam, for example, was once one of the poorest countries in the world. But a series of economic reforms in the late ‘80s — ...

The Court’s overall docket is shrinking, even as it hears more and more cases dealing with Republican cultural grievances.

In Trump v. Illinois, three Republican justices joined all three of the Court’s Democrats in ruling that Trump violated federal law when he deployed a few hundred members of the National Guard to ...

Jordan Weissmann is an economics and politics journalist living in Washington. He has written and edited for Slate, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Semafor, and the Argument.

In 2025, the clean energy transition crossed a line that will be hard to uncross. For the first time, renewables overtook coal as the world’s leading source of electricity. In t ...

The US has had a bad track record of building nuclear on time and on budget. But that could change.