In every generation, important people predict that the end is near and the apocalypse is coming. In the 1960s, the... more

On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order telling drugmakers to slash the prices of their medicines. Once again, the president showed... more

In music, billion-dollar investments in old catalogues are squeezing out new music. In film, Hollywood has become addicted to the... more

Last month, the unemployment rate for recent college grads surged to nearly 6 percent. Compared to the overall economy's jobless... more

Today, we are witnessing an unprecedented assault on American science. Thousands of workers have been dismissed from the National Institutes... more

In the last few weeks, for the first time in my life, I’ve seriously thought about the 21st century not... more

In 1937, a Rhode Island psychiatrist named Charles Bradley ran an experiment on 30 child patients who had complained of... more

Last week, a team of astrophysicists from the University of Cambridge announced that they had discovered the “strongest indication” ever... more

In the past three weeks, we've spoken to economists about the tariffs. We’ve spoken to a historian about the Smoot-Hawley... more

The U.S. is in the opening innings of a full-blown trade war with China. What does that actually mean? What... more

The 1920s and the 2020s share a special kinship. One hundred years ago, the U.S. was grappling with a mix... more

Donald Trump's tariff plan has set global markets on fire. What are they for? What are they trying to accomplish? Fresh... more

Donald Trump's second term has been a breakneck whirlwind: tariffs announced, tariffs unannounced, tariffs reannounced, allies threatened, and global coalitions... more

Corruption. Class wars. Technological splendor. The dawn of a new age of business and government. Rockefeller and Carnegie. The Gilded... more

Donald Trump is serving up a scarcity agenda to America. He and the White House say we don’t have an... more

Generation Z, which was born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s, has a unique economic, political, and cultural... more

Cancer is not a singular disease but a category of hundreds, even thousands, of rare diseases with different molecular signatures... more

Artificial intelligence tools for musicians are getting eerily good, very fast. Their work can be maddening, funny, ethically dubious, and... more

Something alarming is happening with reading in America. Leisure reading by some accounts has declined by about 50 percent this... more

If you had to describe the U.S. economy at the moment, I think you could do worse than the word stuck. The... more