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Private U.S. colleges and universities are charging an average of $44,961 in tuition for the 2025-26 school year. Catherine Lane/Moment via Getty Images

Business

College is unaffordable for many Americans – but don’t just blame rising tuition

Staff Writer - June 28, 2026

The U.S. is falling short of what its national wealth makes possible for its people. Eric Raptosh Photography/Tetra images via GettyImages

Business

Americans are not as well off as people in peer nations – US safety net’s shortfalls show up in global data

Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center in Cuthbert is one of close to 200 rural hospitals that have closed in the past two decades. AP Photo/Jeff Amy

Business

Why rural healthcare fund’s $50B focus on tech upgrades may not help vulnerable hospitals and providers

A small motorboat passes anchored vessels in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, on June 11, 2026. Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP

Business

The danger of US‑Iran ceasefire agreement is what it leaves out

Rapper Jay-Z poses behind his desk in the New York offices of Roc-A-Fella Records in April 1996. Nitro/Getty Images

Business

30 years after ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ Jay‑Z’s career embodies hip‑hop’s biggest contradictions

Economy

#MeToo movement finds an unlikely champion in Wall Street with the...

Staff Writer - August 5, 2018

Economy

How Trump’s trade war affects working-class Americans

Staff Writer - August 3, 2018

Economy

American farmers want trade partners not handouts – an agricultural economist...

Staff Writer - July 31, 2018

Economy

I’m an economist riding a bike across America, defying what the...

Staff Writer - July 30, 2018

Economy

A brief history of ketchup

Staff Writer - July 29, 2018

Business

What is a ‘poison pill’?

Staff Writer - July 26, 2018

Economy

Why the war on poverty in the US isn’t over, in...

Staff Writer - July 20, 2018

Business

MGM is suing the victims of the worst mass shooting in...

Staff Writer - July 19, 2018

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EXPLORING NATURE

A record-tying heat wave helped spread a wildfire in Northern California’s Shasta and Trinity counties in July 2018. Terray Sylvester/Getty Images

Environment

Heat waves increase wildfire risk – a new study explains how...

Staff Writer - June 18, 2026

Dmitri Kalashnikov, University of California, Merced; Cong Yin, University of California, Merced; Madhulika Gurazada, University of California, Merced, and Mukesh Kumar, University...

Space is full of satellites and debris – data centers could one day join the mix. NicoElNino, NASA/iStock via Getty Images

Building data centers in space is an intriguing idea on paper,...

June 16, 2026

A sign on a dirt hiking trail in the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska points to naturalist John Muir’s cabin. Wanderluster/iStock/Getty Images

Paving paradise: Dismantling the US Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife,...

June 15, 2026

Companies can be analyzed as moral actors, not just profit-makers. wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Why corporate inclusion policies are moral decisions, not just business ones

June 14, 2026

As ocean temperatures rise during El Niño, fish can find themselves in hot water. Geoff Trodd/Unsplash

El Niño is back, and ocean temperatures are already near record...

June 12, 2026