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

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.

Bari Weiss blocked a critical story about the Trump administration — as CBS’s billionaire backers seek Trump’s help.

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On the roads, motor-vehicle deaths — which spiked during the pandemic — have now fallen for several years in a row: the ...

The book’s cover art sketches a future where half of our planet is densely woven with the homes, clean energy, and other ...

Politics and entertainment have always been intertwined. Trump isn’t the first person to draw on entertainment practices in ...

Ordinary Americans today enjoy a living standard that would have awed kings for most of human history. We live in homes ...

Last year, 2024, was the warmest year humans have ever measured, and 2025 is on track to take second place. These years saw ...