Pessimism has become both widespread and persistent. In America consumer sentiment is near its lowest on record. Across ...

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.” If ...

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

Voters are headed to the polls on the biggest primary election day of the 2024 cycle with one issue in particular at the top of their minds: the state of the U.S. economy. About one-third of Americans ...

Wendy Carlin explains how a new approach to economics education can help address pressing societal problems In the early 2010s, a widespread feeling that economics teaching was failing students ...

Women prioritize inclusive "we are in this together" policies. Source: Debbie Peterson / heyjasperai Since the business upheavals of the 1980s, when women began to fill more management positions, ...

When Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he likely did not consider that the war he was starting would last for years. That war has cost Moscow a lot of men and material ...