As laboratories dismiss staff and halt clinical trials, and as countries like France actively recruit American scientists, it’s worth questioning whether short-term budgetary gains justify potentially ...

There is a great deal of pearl-clutching going on in the halls of intellectual excellence in Washington DC. Donald Trump, we are reliably informed, is definitely going to pull the United States out of ...

The growing appetite for reliable, clean power has helped thrust nuclear energy back into the national conversation after decades of declining fortunes. Yet this nuclear resurgence faces formidable ...

Federal policy can significantly alter drugmakers’ incentives, yet there is substantial debate about how various proposals will affect the development of new drugs. At this event, experts will ...

It was a “naughty document,” Winston Churchill admitted. In October 1944, the British prime minister proposed that he and Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin avert postwar conflict by splitting the ...

By terming himself the team updater, Secretary Hegseth constricts his job indiscreet conveyor of information. Without a Secretary who understands their role more substantively, expect lots more of ...

An administration and Congress focused on government efficiency may want to tackle the student loan nonpayment crisis before it is too late.

Here in the DOGE era, the specter of inefficient bureaucracy haunts many government agencies. Yet the Social Security Administration offers a surprising counternarrative—at least in parts. As civil ...

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The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores underline a continuing decline in educational achievement in the United States. The Institute of Education Sciences’ tendency ...

There is now an opportunity under current legislation to build an education research center that uses more modern methods for education R&D.

Let’s start with a chart to understand the dire fiscal situation we are in as a nation. Figure 1. Federal Debt Held by the Public as a Share of Gross Domestic Product, 1940-2054 You’re looking at how ...