James Poterba is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the President and CEO of the NBER. His research straddles the fields of public and financial ...

Hype is often contrasted with the notion of something called an AI winter. This is a period of diminished interest and investment in AI technologies. It’s a cyclical trend that has been seen since ...

The Middle East today is witnessing a transformation that goes far beyond conventional geopolitics or the competition for oil. One of the most urgent yet underexplored dimensions of its crisis is the ...

On average, tenants in England now spend 36.3% of their incomes on rent, well above the 30% threshold widely considered ...

A Labour minister warned that "far too many" white working-class children risked being "written off" by society.

The wage gap between CEOs and average employees at U.S. nonprofit hospitals widened from 2009 to 2023, according to a study published this month in Health Affairs. Researchers from the University of ...

By Jibril Abdul Mumuni Mr. Mohammed-Anwar Sadat Adam, the Country Director for Oxfam, an international charity, says Africa’s ...

However, job creation has not kept pace, resulting in persistently high urban unemployment rates. Based on basic job search ...

The faster our world heats up, the faster the divide between the cooled and the cooked will widen. Ultimately, it is symptomatic of the larger injustice of the climate crisis, which is that the people ...

Hawaiʻi has a long history of civil rights that extends to many different groups and peoples before the Illegal overthrow of ...

Kids across the U.S. are heading back to school as tariffs drive up costs on imported tech from countries like China, ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina’s catastrophic landfall, its legacy of destruction, displacement, and deepened ...