Since Democrats’ $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) was enacted in February, states have been busy designing ways to spend their share of the $350 billion in one-time federal “state and local aid” provided by ....

By James Pethokoukis Increasing worker productivity is critical to raising living standards over the long run. But what does that mean, exactly? Consider this: If the American economy had been able to maintain the rapid ....

By Bret Swanson Between July 2018 and July 2020, California lost around 339,000 people to net out-migration. In the last nine months, that trend may even have accelerated. By one estimate, San Francisco alone now ....

At its upcoming May 4-7 “Spring Conference on Teaching, Learning, and Student Success,” Michigan State University originally promoted “Affinity Groups for conversation within identity groups” as one of its “New This Year” items, see this ....

By James Pethokoukis Here’s an interesting illustration of the William Faulkner line “The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” courtesy of the working paper “Rugged Entrepreneurs: The Geographic and Cultural Contours of New ....

China’s vaccinating now. Not that quickly compared to their population size but very quickly compared to a month ago. Evaluating the time series of Chinese dose levels, why it took so long to hit the ....

By Bret Swanson Yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas redoubled both his criticism of Big Tech’s assault on free speech and his invitation for a comprehensive review of speech in the internet era. The case ....

By James Pethokoukis and Scott Lincicome On both sides of the aisle, calls for industrial policy seem to be gaining momentum. Americans have grown more skeptical about markets in the aftermath of the Great Recession. ....

S&P Dow Jones Indices, the “de facto scorekeeper of the active versus passive investing debate,” recently released its “SPIVA U.S. Year-End 2020” report. Here’s an overview of the SPIVA Scorecard: There is nothing novel about ....

…. is the title of Philip Carl Salzman’s article in Minding the Campus, here are some key “money quotes”: Have you wondered why woke requirements and cancel culture become more extreme by the week, by ....