A K-shaped economy that lasts long enough results in a top that grows careless, a bottom that grows combustible, and the ...

Adjust the results for such things as student poverty, and the “southern surge” is even more impressive. On a ranking compiled by the Urban Institute, a think-tank, Mississippi comes top (see chart 1) ...

Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana traditionally were America’s educational basement, but now they are showing blue states a ...

Rather, hope emerges in the most unlikely of places: three states here in the Deep South that long represented America’s ...

Final plan selection data show Texas growing its ACA rolls for 2026 while most large states moved in the opposite direction. Texas has one of the best ACA markets for consumers. That is due, in large ...

What I see is schools fighting for their students. These states have created a structure that closely monitors each school’s performance and incentivizes principals and teachers alike to do ...

Another reader felt that the biggest benefits of a falling human population will be to the planet itself: “Less pollution, less deforestation, less mass extinctions of other species, etc., etc.

Americans are getting bigger-than-usual tax refunds this year. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been talking up this windfall for months, saying that it will help spark “a non-inflationary boom.” ...

In 2025, Kapuas Regency in Central Kalimantan saw its food consumption deficiency rate hit 15.41%, up 0.64% year-on-year and ...

A book by a former chief economist at the State Bank of Pakistan critiques international aid and its deleterious impact ...

Experienced Tribal leader and clean energy champion joins the Alliance executive team to support Tribes in their ...